A book is born

 
It’s a strange thing when a project you’ve been working on pouring your whole friggen heart into for a year finally comes to fruition. I started writing my book, Love to a Whore’s Daughter: Life and Faith Through the Lens of Grace and Redemption last October. 

It took about 5 months to write the draft. Five months of 3-5 hours every night after my kids went to bed. Five months of reliving my past, digging through the rubble to find the remnants of Jesus and His prevenient grace for a sad, lost, abandoned girl. Five months of matching up the memories with scriptures to bring healing to the wounds; the gaping wounds I thought were already scars. 

I really thought I was okay. I thought I had moved on and was a totally different person. Going through this process showed me that healing and moving forward is much more of a dance than it is a linear process. Sometimes you go forward, sometimes you go backwards or even in circles. But any movement is better than stagnation. 

I’m excited for what this book is going to do for the other Lisa’s out there. The other people who have been hurt by those entrusted to love and care for them. For others who think they are too damaged for the healing of Jesus. For the adults trapped by the ghosts of their pasts. For the weird ones who think they can’t follow Jesus because they will never fit in with His followers. This book is a guide to faith for people just like us, and for those who want to love people just like us. 

I’m looking forward to conservatives giving this book a chance, even though the word “WHORE” is in the title 🙂 I hope that’s not just wishful thinking. 

This book will be available to you through the Frontier Press website, like it on Facebook for all the info. Preorders start October 1. 

http://frontierpress.org

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