Yuletide Defender - Sandra Robbins

Yuletide Defender

            A few years ago I was getting up every morning and going to the school where I worked as a principal. I loved my job, and I was excited to see the teachers and children come into the building each morning. This was what I’d gone to school and trained for—to be an instructional leader in a job that molded the education of future generations.

            My life was good. I had a husband, four children, and five grandchildren. Church filled an important place in my family’s life, and I loved the community where I lived. However, there was something in my heart that I had never shared with my family. I had a dream that someday I would write a book.

            One night I decided that I couldn’t ignore my burning desire any longer. I sat down at the computer and began to plot a story that had been rolling around in my head. I knew nothing about the craft of writing, but I could put words down on paper. And that’s what I did. Night after night I wrote and rewrote, edited and rewrote some more.

            With my dream being put into action, I became eager to learn, and I searched out various avenues of help. On the internet I found American Christian Romance Writers (now American Christian Fiction Writers), and through membership in that organization I joined a critique group. Conferences followed, and networking with other writers led me to my first agent and then to my first contracted book.

            There was no need for me to formulate any plan of action for my career as a writer because God was there orchestrating every move. I never doubted that. On December 7 of this year Yuletide Defender, my fifth book releases. My other books are: Pedigreed Bloodlines, Final Warning, Mountain Peril, and The Columns of Cottonwood. My sixth book, Dinner at the St. James, will release in January, 2011, and my seventh one, Dangerous Reunion, will release in July, 2011.

            As I look back on what God has let me experience in the past six years, I think how long I let my dream flounder in the secret places of my heart, and I regret that. It has always been my prayer that the words God gives me will be like seeds that go out into the world and find fertile soil in the hearts of my readers. I will never know the results, but God does. And that’s all that matters.

            So I would say to anyone who has a dream, no matter what it is. Don’t delay. Get busy doing what God has laid on your heart. You won’t regret it.

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