Dee Henderson's books

I'm sure many of you know by now that I'm an author by profession. I also love to read.  I haven't done it quite as often as I should have over the years.  Now that I'm living with my friend who is a librarian by profession as well as an avid book lover, I find myself in the middle of a large home library.  I've learned to expand my reading comfort zone.  My friend recommended to me the Uncommon Heroes books by Dee Henderson.  She says, you'll like them...they are about the military.  She was both right and wrong...I didn't like the books, I loved them. 


The first one was a Christian fiction book that talked about of all people...Navy SEALs as Christian men.  It blew me away. Sure, I was in the military and I was around Christian people in the military.  It just never occurred to me that Navy SEALs might be considered leading a Christian life style. It even seemed that much less of a chance of them being much of a romantic.  It did occur to Ms. Henderson and for that I'm grateful.  It lead me to reading more and more of her books out of my friend's library.  


The book that I just finished is God's Gift. As with all of Ms. Henderson's novels, there is a life obstacle in the path of the main characters. This obstacle has them talking to God and even questioning what God has planned for them.  Who among us, hasn't done that at least once in our own life.  


Another fairly consistent thing that I see in all of Ms. Henderson's books is the pairing of the romantic lead characters.  At first they seem so different from one another that it makes you wonder how this relationship will ever work out.  Sometimes the characters don't really like one another at the beginning but something changes their opinions.  Other times the characters like one another but have had a past that makes them resistant to risking love.  I most certainly can relate to that one.  It is hard to move forward when you cling to what might have been.   


Mostly what makes the books truly Christian is the use of scriptures that one or more of the characters find or quote to help them through their trials.  It is a reminder to the rest of us that when we find ourselves in need of an answer there is one book that we can always turn to. 


I truly believe Ms. Henderson possesses one of God's Gifts...an awesome ability to write so an everyday believer can become embroiled in a true Christian relationship.  One not only between two people but between humans and their Heavenly Father, to whom she gives great credit for her works.


DeColores,


Lynn Hallbrooks