Tell us about your name?
My writing name is my maiden name. I use this with the blessing of my husband because my married name is very difficult to pronounce. Way too many consonants. But don't let that fool you----I am so much in love with my husband, David. He is the most wonderful husband in the whole world.
Tell us about your writing.
My debut novel is Shadowed in Silk which is set in India just after WW1. Ever since I was a child I've had a love for India and her people which has grown over the years. The story is about a young woman who comes out to India to be reunited with her husband after 4 long years of war, only to discover he is a cruel stranger. It's a love story that only God can sort out. It is also set during a true event in India that shook the British Empire to the core and was the beginning of the end of British colonial rule over India.
Please share with us your personal salvation testimony.
From the time I was a little baby I had been told the story of salvation through Christ. When I was a girl of about 13 I gave my heart to the Lord at a youth convention. However, I tried to live on both sides of the fence for many years---trying to act like a Christian and yet getting involved in the same sorts of behavior as kids at school. When I was 20 I became pregnant out of wedlock. That was my wake-up call. I realized that I had to start walking on the straight and narrow with the Lord.
But because I was unmarried, I wanted my child to have a loving, attentive dad as well as a loving attentive mom (me). So I chose to relinquish my child to adoption, and through a private Christian organization chose a couple who would raise her to trust the Lord. It was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. God was so good to me though. A year after I gave up my baby girl, Sarah, I met my sweetheart of a husband.
The Lord filled my empty arms 3 times over with our children whom I'm crazy about. And all of my kids know and love the Lord. But I never forgot Sarah.
Jump forward 20 years now.
When Sarah was 20 years old we were reunited as birth-mom and birth-daughter. It was the moment I had been praying for, for 20 years. And while I was filled with joy to be reunited with her, it also broke my heart. Seeing Sarah again brought back all the pain of giving her up in the first place.
However, through that pain I have come to learn something of the Lord's heart. My love for my kids (including Sarah) seems so huge, but it pales in comparison to God's love for us.
"Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands..."Can you share an anecdote of how your writing/speaking has touched a reader.
I use my life verse, the one above in Isaiah often when I speak because it pertains so well with my own personal birth-mother story. I wrote it all out on my blog, www.christinelindsay.org the entire decision to chose adoption, and then the reunion so years later. Whenever I speak on this theme, it dawns on has dawns on many women just how much God loves.
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