Mr. Davis<\/p>\n
I have been following your work for over eight years. I first found your book during a writers conference at my church, a day I will never forget, for that day I found the book that would change my life. I was still walking an unsteady path with the Lord but I had conflict in my heart, for my passion has always been reading but I only enjoy and love fantasy fiction, a path very few Christian writers have dared tread. “How do I follow the Lord and get to read the fiction that I love?”<\/p>\n
I am deeply affected by every word I read, often allowing what I had read to affect my emotional and mental state. I was unsure of my path and willing to listen to the loudest voice or the clearest word. I remember walking along all the tables looking at all the books lining the authors\u2019 tables, books everywhere! My heart was filled with joy at the sight.<\/p>\n
But not one of the great authors\u2019 books called to me. They did not fill that part I longed for. Then on one of the smaller tables, a display was laid out with your first fantasy novel from your DIOM series, I lifted one of the books, attracted by the wonderful cover. Raising Dragons? Dragons in a Christian church. Could it be? Could they really allow such a thing in a God fearing place?<\/p>\n
I turned over the book and read the back cover. “Bonnie.” One of the main characters shared my name! I had found a book that literally called out my name! I gladly bought your book, and for four or five years, every year when the writers conference stopped at my church, I purchased a book, each one strengthening my faith, bringing me closer to the Lord through words of faith love and fantasy.<\/p>\n
You helped me one year as I had desired to gain a set of your books for a pagan witch friend of mine, but I was too poor at the time. You allowed me to pay what I could and donated some of the books. I am glad to tell you that she is saved and a God-fearing woman, raising her own child as a God-fearing boy. I believe your books, as you hoped, laid a seed in her heart, so I thank you. She has meant the world to me and knowing that her heart is now filled with the Light of God has meant the world to me.<\/p>\n
The writers conference found a new place to hold their conference every year, and as such I was unable to meet you again, and because of financial problems, I unable to buy your last books in your OOF series until recently. So as is my tradition when getting a new book in a series, I reread every book in the series, so I could pick up were I left off with the last book fresh in my mind.<\/p>\n
I noticed something, though, as I read from book one all the way through book eight. My attitude and love towards the people I love and care about steadily grew more gentle. Your books affected my way of communicating with people. They helped spur a desire to be a woman after God\u2019s own heart, to live my life as the fictional Bonnie, a pure faith-filled woman of God, ready to help someone else even at her own cost, to live life completely free of fear, and to let life happen. As long as I serve God, no mater what I do, will be pleasing in his love-filled eyes.<\/p>\n
So I thank you, great author, for all the time you put into writing a wonderful work of art. Your words made a difference in my life and my friend\u2019s life, and I know because of them I will make a difference in someone else\u2019s life. Blessing and again thank you. Congratulations on ten years of writing masterpieces.<\/p>\n
Your forever fan,
\nBonnie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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