\n And yet, I am improving, slowly perhaps, but improving nevertheless\u2014learning not to rely on religious clich\u00e9s to make my book appealing to friends who won\u2019t allow a romance in their house. I am also avoiding the temptation to caricaturize the characters I don\u2019t like but rather try to put myself in their shoes, a virtual impossibility sometimes.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour books will fall through the cracks,\u201d one friend warned. \u201cThey\u2019re too broad for the conservative and too narrow for the liberal.\u201d I groaned when I heard his remark, fearing it was only too true and then comforted myself there were probably very many readers who had \u201cfallen through the cracks\u201d themselves.<\/p>\n
So with that rather lengthy introduction, let me present my most recent novel: \u201cLove me and let me go.\u201d Using the present tense, I let five of my main characters tell the story\u2014Cherry, Angus, Dennis and others. And while the actual events are not taken from my own life, this novel is in many ways truly biographical. My heroine feels about many things just as I have felt and asks the same questions. The issues she faces are those I have faced, if not in my own life, then in the lives of those close to me.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow can someone so right be so wrong?\u201d my heroine asks, speaking of her devout yet controlling father who, after realizing the pain he causes his family by mistaking the voice of God for his own voice, he admits, in an agony of grief, \u201cI have been the victim of my own sanctity!\u201d<\/p>\n
Yes, \u201cLove me and let me go,\u201d is a Christian romance novel, that is, it has romance, is Christian and is fictitious. And some of you who have read our books on prayer, or on \u201cGod and suffering,\u201d or on Christian parenting etc. etc. may not be attracted to Love me and let me go. But, if you find it almost impossible to \u201clove and, at the same time to let go\u201d someone dear to you\u2014to allow them to be their own person and find their own feet spiritually\u2014then give my book a try. Or if you are a child who loves your parents, respects them for their Christian devotion and yet are desperately seeking to find your own feet spiritually, then maybe my heroine\u2019s path to true freedom will help you grow into God\u2019s will for your life.<\/p>\n
This Christian novel isn\u2019t perfect. There are many more brilliant books on the market. But I guarantee it will make you think. Don\u2019t look for pat answers, but as you read, trace the thread of hope running through the warp and woof of life, woven by God\u2019s own hand as He makes a masterpiece out of broken threads and knotted yarn, knowing that what he has done for Cherry, and Angus, and Dennis, he can do for you.<\/p>\n
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