Since Shades of Truth has hit Ebook readers nationwide…
and I know this because it actually appeared in the top 20 on 2 Kindle bestseller lists on Friday, yee!!…
I’ve decided to ask a reader question from the back of my book, today.
The hero, Ethan Reed, is working undercover in a youth detention center to ferret out the person who’s recruiting residents for a drug ring.
In his youth, Ethan did time in a similar facility, and based on that experience, he remarks that residents always claim incidents are never their fault.
We talked about this tendency in our Sunday School class yesterday morning. That is, we talked about how all sin begins with self-deception.
Self-deception such as:
~saying everyone is doing it or
~it can’t be wrong when it feels so right or
~I’ll just do it this once or
~I can always ask God to forgive me later or
~saying you can’t help it, it’s not your fault, because of A, B, or C
Whereas, true repentance is marked not only by an admission that yes, you did wrong, but an absence of rationalization for it, as well as a genuine sorrow about doing it (not just about getting caught!), and the desire to make restitution to any offended party.
So here’s the question: When you make a mistake in your life, do you tend to blame someone else or do you take responsibility? Since this is an intensely personal question, perhaps share an example of how doing one or the other (in your younger days!) had positive or negative repercussions and what you learned from that experience.
NEWS:
If you’d like to read an interview with my hero, you’ll find it here: http://craftieladiesofromance.blogspot.com/2012/03/shades-of-truth-interview.html
And there’s a giveway going on this week for a signed copy of SoT here: http://www.anitamaedraper.com/author-memories.html
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