{"id":108,"date":"2009-01-06T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=108"},"modified":"2009-01-06T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T13:00:00","slug":"gayle-roper-and-when-our-dreams-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/gayle-roper-and-when-our-dreams-die","title":{"rendered":"Gayle Roper and when our dreams die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">Today, I&#8217;m pleased to feature a longtime writing friend, Gayle Roper. Gayle is going to tell us first about the heroine she is writing about now. And then I&#8217;m going to let you know about her current release, FATAL DEDUCTIONS.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">Here&#8217;s Gayle Roper:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">      &#8220;Dinah, my heroine in the as yet unpublished book Lost and Found, is a young woman who has waited her whole adult life for the chance to meet the right man and have a family. She has a full life in the mean time, but she reaches thirty single, only to suffer a total hysterectomy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">      She\u2019s devastated. God has taken her dream of being a mother from her. She has what she calls her Hannah moments, times of deep despair like Hannah experienced in I Samuel 1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">      Hannah, deeply mourning her childless state, goes to the temple and weeps before the Lord.  \u201cI am a woman deeply troubled,\u201d she tells Eli the priest. \u201cI have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">      God honors Hannah\u2019s heart cry, and she gives birth to Samuel, the great priest of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">      But what if God doesn\u2019t answer your prayer? What if there is no Samuel for you? What if, like Dinah\u2014and like me\u2014there will never be children of your body? What if that dream is dead, beyond resurrection?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">      There are many other dreams that we hold dear, that we cherish and talk to God about, good things, fine things, things that would honor Him, things that would allow us to serve Him, things that never happen in spite of our pleadings and our tears. A husband\u2019s salvation. Higher education. A specific career. Financial freedom. A child\u2019s restoration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">      As I told a young friend who yearned for children but was unable to have any, \u201cYou can either stay mad at God the rest of your life because He \u2018stole\u2019 your dream, or you can agree with Him that He has the right to call the shots and look for other ways to have a rich life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">      Question: which takes more faith?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">            -To be a Hannah and have the joy of God granting your dream?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">            -To be a Dinah and learn to trust Him in spite of lost dreams?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">      To be Dinah requires looking beyond one\u2019s dreams to alternatives. In the case of my husband and me, our alternative to my surgical sterility was adoption. Our two boys are now grown men with families of their own. Looking back, we see the hand of God in the death of our dream. Where would our boys have been without growing up in a Christian home? Who might they have married? What might they have done without the guidance of the Lord?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">      When your dream dies, trust God through the pain. Trust God to bring good out of bad. Trust God to give you an alternative that is rich in its own way, richer really because He gave it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">Thanks, Gayle. Accepting that God has different plans than our own is one of the hardest challenge for a Christian. I will look forward to inviting you back to tell us about Dinah in <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;\">Lost and Found  <\/span><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">and which fortunate publisher she ends up with. GRIN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">Now about Gayle&#8217;s latest release with Multnomah, a trade paperback <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: trebuchet ms;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Fatal Deductions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">Blurb:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">Libby Keating finds herself temporarily sharing a beautiful but tiny historic home in Philadelphia with her estranged identical twin. Less than 24 hours after her arrival, Libby trips over a dead body on the front stoop. As the murder mystery unfolds\u2014with the aid of crossword puzzles the reader is encouraged to do\u2014so does Libby&#8217;s back story, which includes a series of traumatic events that ruined her adolescence. Good Christian friends including her new neighbor, the handsome Drew Canfield, support her as she finds a way to love her enemies while standing up to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">Rave Reviews: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">&#8220;Roper&#8217;s dialogue and character development are spot-on, which is no small feat, considering that Libby&#8217;s world is peopled with everyone from elderly patricians to two-bit gangsters\u2026a pleasure from start to finish.&#8221; &#8211; Publishers Weekly<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">Drop by <\/span><a style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.GayleRoper.com\">www.GayleRoper.com<\/a><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\"> and click on Standalone Novels. You can purchase this suspense novel right there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">Gayle, thanks again for posting!<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms;\">Lyn<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I&#8217;m pleased to feature a longtime writing friend, Gayle Roper. Gayle is going to tell us first about the heroine she is writing about now. And then I&#8217;m going to let you know about her current release, FATAL DEDUCTIONS. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/gayle-roper-and-when-our-dreams-die\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gayle Roper and when our dreams die - booksbylyncote.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/gayle-roper-and-when-our-dreams-die\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gayle Roper and when our dreams die - booksbylyncote.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today, I&#8217;m pleased to feature a longtime writing friend, Gayle Roper. 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