Author Susan Sleeman Asks Are You a Planner?
My guest today is suspense author Susan Sleeman. She has a question that sounds simple but is it? Here’s Susan:
“Are you a planner? I’m a careful planner, and I analyze everything from every conceivable direction before making a decision. If you ask my family, they will tell you that I often say we need to do a cost/benefit analysis to determine if we should do something. I’m not strictly talking about money when I say cost, but all the personal costs involved if I decide to do something.
I learned this from my parents who raised to be a strong woman. To take charge of my life. To be independent. To work hard and achieve. But in all that my parents taught me about being strong, they never taught me that it takes even more strength to plan and prepare, but then let go and let God be in charge.
It took a chronic illness to bring me to the end of myself so God could control my life. As I look back on the last ten years, I wish I could’ve learned the lesson without so much pain and suffering, but there’s nothing like the loss of your health to let you know that you are not really in charge of anything in life.
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Kat Justice, the heroine in Dead Wrong, has to learn the same lesson. A former police officer, she was taught to be in charge and to control situations to keep herself safe. She’s carried that philosophy into her personal life and when things don’t go as planned, she worries. Couple that with the death of her birth mother and both of her adoptive parents and she is certain if she doesn’t stay in control, her life will fall apart. It’s only when she lets go of her fears and trusts God that she is free to fall in love again.
How does she let go you ask? That would be a plot spoiler, but I can tell you, that I take her to the end of herself much like God did with me and she can do nothing but trust Him. And like me, her life is far richer for giving up.
So what about you? Do you like to be in control? Be in charge? And if so, does it sometimes take on a life of its own and you forget about God in the equation?”–Susan
To learn more about Susan stop by any of these locations on the web.
Website www.SusanSleeman.com
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Thanks, Susan. You’ve given us something to think about. BTW, Susan is offering a copy of her Dead Wrong. Leave a comment in reply to her question and be entered in the drawing–Lyn
