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| Christine Lindsay |
Is it possible that
some of us writers are workaholics because we like it?
At the start of my
fifties I began my long-desired writing and speaking career. While things were
challenging, God gave me the strength to rise to that challenge, and I
thoroughly enjoyed reaching those long-sought-after goals.
OH MY, I FELT FULFILLED. I was woman. Hear me roar…or better still…maybe
I was getting close to becoming that Proverbs 31 woman.
But fifteen years after
the fact, after my first two books had been published, and with contracts for
more, I also discovered that it was hard to shoehorn leisure into my schedule.
When was the last time I relaxed or took a day off? Sometimes months would go
by.
AND THE BIGGER COST:
This past spring it
dawned on me that my dear husband was suffering from loneliness due to my
extremely busy schedule. The wrongness of this hit me between the eyes.
Around the same time I
ran into two different sets of women. Six of one and half a dozen of the other,
you might say.
The first group warmly
reminisced about the wonderful holidays they had camping with their husbands
over the years. The other group shared that quite recently their husbands had
passed away, unexpectedly, suddenly, and all these dear husbands were around
the age of sixty.
My husband was sixty.
A GOD-INSPIRED SOLUTION
The question echoed in
my mind. What am I waiting for? That
week we purchased a brand new, little travel trailer. My husband didn’t take
much convincing.
On our first trip in
July we drove through the majestic Canadian Rockies, and at the summit of
Roger’s Pass I noticed a large artillery gun. My husband explained that
avalanche control experts shot artillery shells into the snowcaps to trigger
avalanches, to control the snows from building too high and thick and thereby
causing a fatal avalanche.
WHAT I LEARNED DRIVING THROUGH THE ROCKIES
I compared this
controlling of avalanches to my own life. My marriage had to come first, even
at the expense of my writing and speaking ministry. So, like the avalanche
control experts, I chose to cut back on my writing so I could spend more togetherness
time with my husband.
My little Christmas novelette
Heavenly Haven is the culmination of
that thinking.
Dora here. As writers, it's difficult to shut down for the day. How do you unwind? Do you find your relationships suffer?
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| Heavenly Haven ~ Purchase Link |
Heavenly
Haven by Christine Lindsay
Avalanches happen to other people, not us. Marital problems happen to
other people, not us, especially nine days before Christmas. At least that’s
what Jack and Shaina Burke thought. Married for ten years, avalanche control
expert Jack, and Shaina, only wanted to celebrate their December anniversary in
a romantic way, until the shifting snows on the mountain bring havoc
tumbling down upon them.
About the author:
Christine
Lindsay was born in N. Ireland and is proud of the fact that she was patted on
the head by Prince Philip when she was a baby. Her great grandfather, and her
grandfather—yes father and son—were both riveters on the building of the Titanic. Tongue in cheek, Christine
states that as a family they accept no responsibility for the sinking of that
great ship.
It was
stories of her ancestors who served in the British Cavalry in Colonial India
that inspired her historical series Twilight of the British Raj of which Book 1
Shadowed in Silk has won several
awards. Book 2 Captured by Moonlight is
so far a Finalist for the 2013 Readers Favorite Award. Christine is currently writing the final installment of that
series called Veiled at Midnight to
be released August 2014.
Also coming
out February 2014 is Londonderry Dreaming,
a romance novella set in Londonderry Northern Ireland.
Christine
makes her home in British Columbia, on the west coast of Canada with her
husband and their grown up family. Her cat Scottie is chief editor on all her books.
Christine Lindsay would love to connect with you on her
website www.ChristineLindsay.com, or
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