As many of you know I have been, for about a year now, working on a Christian novel for OMF Literature. It's been a fun process of monthly gatherings, story proposals, sending early drafts and receiving feedback.
Now my deadline looms in a few hours for a complete manuscript that has the stamp of the-best-I-could-do at this point in my life.
My story is about infidelity. About a husband and a wife whose marriage was shaken by an affair. I know that God would lead them to forgiveness, that God would lead them to Jesus. I just don't know how. And I can't skip that part. I can't magically jump to the ending. I have to write how the characters got there.
And I have absolutely no idea.
So, I asked God. God impressed upon my heart that I have to leave it up to Him now, because this is the part I don't know, we usually don't know. How God works behind the scenes. Or how God's heart beats. That's the part I really need to know so I can write about it.
So it's 4:30 p.m., and as a final attempt at research to the grandest mystery of all: the heart of God, I open my Bible and read Hosea. Hopefully the Holy Spirit informs me how God feels about infidelity. And about unfaithful spouses. And hopefully that I finish this novel with what, at this point, only God knows.
God, help!
