Tidbit: Theme
Because sometimes writers create a story that simply reflects what's going on in their life at the time.
Such is the case for A Heart Deceived. I wrote that story during a dark period in my life, when everything was falling apart. I seriously questioned where God was and if He saw where I was. Hence the creation of Miri Brayden and Ethan Goodwin. They both end up in tragic situations, asking the same questions I did.
But (and I've always got a big but) darkness doesn't win--as it didn't in my own life. No matter what kind of a pit your life is currently stuck in, God sees. God knows. God loves.
A Heart Deceived is based on Psalm 139:7-15. . .
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you