My guest today is Missy Tippens who has an interesting new heroine. Here’s Missy:

“I’d love to share a little about A Family for Faith, my new release from Love Inspired, with you today! And I’ll be giving away a copy in a drawing from among those who comment. Just let me know you’d like to enter and leave contact info.
Faith, the heroine of my story, is a single mom in a strained relationship with her son, who lives with his father. When the boy was in middle school, he started hanging with a bad crowd and getting into trouble. When he asked to go live with his dad, she had no choice but to try it. And the boy flourished there. In the book, he’s in high school and doing well. But she still feels like a failure. She’s dealing with guilt about how she handled the past. Trying her best to be supportive and be there for him whenever she can. Hoping to heal their relationship when he comes to visit for the summer.

Sometimes it’s difficult being a parent. We make decisions and then doubt ourselves. We blame ourselves. We wish we had a do-over. I based this character on a friend of mine who was devastated after her children chose to live with her ex-husband. She’s a good mom but didn’t feel that way at the time. Yet she remained firmly in their lives and has kept a good relationship with them even to this day. I consider her a strong woman who persevered through the pain.

A Family for Faith By Missy Tippens
When Faith Hagin sees widower cop Gabe Reynolds every day in her coffee shop, she can’t help but feel for the struggling single dad. She’s raised a teenager of her own—and sadly, knows what not to do. But thanks to his matchmaking preteen daughter, Chelsea, the whole town’s praying for Gabe to find a wife!
Even though Faith thinks she’s content being just friends, spending time with him and Chelsea starts to feel like a fresh start at having a family. And their love may be the answer to everyone’s prayers.

Bio: Missy Tippens is a pastor’s wife and mom of three who lives near Atlanta. After ten years of pursuing her dream, she made her first sale of a full-length novel to Love Inspired in 2007. She still pinches herself to see if it really happened! Her novels have been finalists in the American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year Contest, the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence and the Bookseller’s Best Award. Her current novel from Love Inspired is on shelves now. The next, A House Full of Hope, will be out in February 2012.

For more info, drop by http://www.MissyTippens.com and http://lifewithmissy.blogspot.com/ To read an except, click here.

When Missy said “Sometimes it’s difficult being a parent,” I nearly choked on my coffee. Sometimes parenting seems beyond our powers. When I held my newborn in my arms, the fact that I’d be a mother for the rest of my life never occurred to me. But perhaps that’s for the best.  🙂 What has been the most challenging age or aspect of parenting for you? And what has helped you as a parent?–Lyn
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