I hope you're having a blessed and happy week! Today I'll be joining other local authors at Central Library located at 301 W Claude St., Lake Charles, LA for their "Authors on the Bayou" event so if you're out and about between 11 and 1, please drop by. There'll be refreshments, readings and all sorts of fun.
Meanwhile, please welcome Christine Lindsay back to our blog with her brand new release, Finding Sarah, Finding Me: A Birthmother's Story
Adoption. It’s something that touches one in three people today, a word that will conjure different emotions in those people touched by it. A word that might represent the greatest hope…the greatest question…the greatest sacrifice. But most of all, it’s a word that represents God’s immense love for his people.
Join birth mother Christine Lindsay as she shares
the heartaches, hopes, and epiphanies of her journey to reunion with the
daughter she gave up...and to understanding her true identity in Christ along
the way.
Through her story and glimpses into the lives of
other families in the adoption triad, readers will see the beauty of our broken
families, broken hearts, and broken dreams when we entrust them to our loving
God.
Foreword to Finding
Sarah Finding Me
In the years between, after relinquishing Sarah at three days
old and before our reunion many years later, if I just happen to attend a
women’s conference or a ladies’ church function around her birthday, and as
happens so often, the organizers of the event just happen to hand out
carnations at the door…and as they randomly give out a variety of colors to the
ladies leaving…as I inch my way slowly toward the exit in a long lineup of
women, I watch with mounting expectation.
The flowers arrive every year around her birthday, those silly
blooms that started on the day I got out of the hospital. Sometimes just a card
with flowers on it, and always from someone who has no clue what February 24th
means to me. Sometimes a friend might send a potted plant—always pink—just
because they’re thinking of me.
So as I shuffle forward in each lineup at any ladies’ function I
happen to attend, while the last strains of the last song float over the venue,
and as the women in front of me smile and with thanks receive their red
carnation—or yellow or white—as a gift for coming, without ever asking, mine is
always, always pink.
I lift my bloom to my face and breathe in the sweetness. Yes,
Lord, you want me to find Sarah.
Read Chapter One of Finding
Sarah Finding Me: Click HERE
Get your copy of the book at Amazon.
Christine Lindsay is the
author of multi-award-winning Christian fiction with complex emotional and
psychological truth, who always promises a happy ending. Tales of her Irish
ancestors who served in the British Cavalry in Colonial India inspired her
multi-award-winning series Twilight of the British Raj, Book 1 Shadowed
in Silk, Book 2 Captured
by Moonlight, and explosive
finale Veiled
at Midnight.
Christine’s Irish wit
and use of setting as a character is evident in her contemporary and historical
romances Londonderry
Dreaming and Sofi’s
Bridge.
A busy writer and
speaker, Christine, and her husband live on the west coast of Canada. Coming
August 2016 is the release of her non-fiction book Finding
Sarah—Finding Me: A Birthmother’s Story.
Please drop by Christine’s website www.ChristineLindsay.org or follow her on Amazon on Twitter. Subscribe to
her quarterly
newsletter, and be her friend on Pinterest , Facebook, and Goodreads
Also, check out some of Christine's previous posts where she shared Treasures and Thoughts and been in our Spotlight!
I sure hope you enjoyed today's post and that you'll check back each week for Tuesday Treasures, Thursday Thoughts and Saturday Spotlight.
Until next time, take care and God bless.
PamT
7 comments:
Inspirational and extremely touching. God Bless you on your writing journey.
With an adopted grand daughter, I have come to respect the birth mothers' sacrifice and to revel in the child's forever home. Nice post and good luck with your writing.
Thank you Darcy and Susan for your encouragement. My particular "Adoption" story was a great journey, pain and eventual joy.
Christine, what a beautiful sentiment. I pray that your book resonates with those who need encouragement. I like the way you've used flowers as a symbol in this passage. Cheers
Thank you Marilyn. The pink flowers were a strange coincidence throughout my journey as a birthmom. God used those silly flowers to encourage me during the dark times. Hope you get a chance to read the book at some point. Hugs and blessings.
What a difficult book this must have been to write. As an adopted child, whose sister was adopted by another family, though we were finally reunited through fate many years later, I understand the many dynamics and emotions involved..and often there is a much more complex situation than a triad.
Oh Elizabeth, you are so right. I'd love to have you share your story on my blog? Would you contact me at Christine (dot) d (dot) Schmidtke @ gmailcom
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