Harper's Heart - E-book - ePub

A Word from the Author"It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental."~Roland BarthesWhy this book; this subject matter?My romance novels are inspired by many things - from my own personal situations, to stories I hear about from friends, to TV shows, to movies, to conversations I overhear in bars, to dreams I've had, to books I read - as a writer, inspiration is everywhere. This is my first Christian romance.
I was inspired to write it because as a modern woman of a certain age, I believe you look back on your personal/romantic life and wish you'd done some things differently. Not that you necessarily regret your past, but that you wish you'd recognized certain patterns earlier so that you could have prevented some of the heartache. As the quote at the top of this section alludes to, I believe many of us think nothing of opening our bodies up to a man, but we cringe at the thought of asking them to open up their hearts to us.
We don't want to seem needy or pushy or prudish or out of touch. As women, I think too many of us stay stuck in patterns in our relationships. We choose the same partners - different men with the same behavior patterns - over and over again. And we wonder why we can't seem to "get it right."One Sunday after I'd started this book, I saw a sermon by pastor Joel Osteen that talked about the potter's wheel.".
Jeremiah uses the analogy of the [potter's] wheel as a type that represents the workings of God as He molds and shapes either a person or a nation into the kind of vessel He desires.