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When the Deep Never Seems to End
20 – When the Deep Never Seems to End
Have you ever felt like the deep will never end? Like you barely make it through one tough place and another one begins? Well, you’re not alone! Let gifted author Robin Lee Hatcher, who has known many deep places in her life and career, share words of truth and encouragement to help you dwell in the deep—and come out with the sure knowledge that God is with you every step of the way!
Show Notes
Best-selling novelist Robin Lee Hatcher is known for her heartwarming and emotionally charged stories of faith, courage, and love. Winner of the Christy, the RITA, the Carol, the Inspirational Reader’s Choice, and many other awards, she is also a recipient of the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from both Romance Writers of American (2001) and American Christian Fiction Writers (2014). Robin is the author of over 70 novels and novellas, and she knows what it’s like to be in the deep.
Top Quotes From Robin
What the Deep Means to Me…
“I’ve had very deep places with the Lord, both that I would consider highs, even though it’s a deep place, and sometimes they’re deep because they’re hard times to walk through. But I’ve come to believe through my Christian walk that those deep places are what make us strong and what make us more like Christ. How can we want to deny them or turn them away? We have to spend time in those deep places so that we can reach the high places.”
What led to the writing of The Forgiving Hour…
I didn’t know if I had the talent or the courage to write the book…My first husband had multiple extramarital affairs…but the first affair was what the story was based upon. One day the mistress came to our house to pick up my husband, so I saw her…Three months after that, we put our marriage back together as best as unbelievers could. Three years after that, I was attending a Christian conference… a young woman came over and joined us at our table… suddenly I realized that this was the mistress. I knew she’d come to the table knowing who I was, I just didn’t know why she’d come to the table…I would love to tell you that I was very spiritual for the whole conference and just soaked it all in, but the honest truth is that all I knew was where this gal was seated throughout the day. When I went home that day, I spent the night asking God why she had come to the table… About 3 o’clock in the morning, God spoke to me very clearly and said she was there because I needed to forgive her. I said to the Lord, “I forgave her, I forgave him, everything is fine, fine, fine!” He said, “No, she needs you to tell her you forgive her.” I stood up, and I raised my fist to the ceiling and I said, “You’re God. You tell her.” But by 6 o’clock in the morning God had His way with me…I found her at the conference the next day… I said to her, “I know who you are and I forgive you.” I can’t tell you how much that changed her life, but I know that it changed mine. It freed me forever from ever holding onto bitterness…
God had to do a lot of healing in my heart and in my life to prepare me for that place where I could actually tell that story. I had to be willing to wait but also to hear when it was time.
What led to the writing of A Promise Kept…
I married Jerry in 1989. Unbeknownst to me he was an alcoholic… I had no understanding of addictions at that time…It took about three years for things to get so bad for him that there was no hiding it from me. We were married for 17 years with alcoholism being the predominant feature of our marriage… There were many very painful hard times…when you’re married to an alcoholic, it’s a lonely place to be.
The first time Jerry went into the DTs it drove me back to the foot of the cross…I held on to the foot of the cross until I could feel the slivers in the palms of my hands. One of the things that I have learned is that’s exactly where ...
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20 – When the Deep Never Seems to End
Have you ever felt like the deep will never end? Like you barely make it through one tough place and another one begins? Well, you’re not alone! Let gifted author Robin Lee Hatcher, who has known many deep places in her life and career, share words of truth and encouragement to help you dwell in the deep—and come out with the sure knowledge that God is with you every step of the way!
Show Notes
Best-selling novelist Robin Lee Hatcher is known for her heartwarming and emotionally charged stories of faith, courage, and love. Winner of the Christy, the RITA, the Carol, the Inspirational Reader’s Choice, and many other awards, she is also a recipient of the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from both Romance Writers of American (2001) and American Christian Fiction Writers (2014). Robin is the author of over 70 novels and novellas, and she knows what it’s like to be in the deep.
Top Quotes From Robin
What the Deep Means to Me…
“I’ve had very deep places with the Lord, both that I would consider highs, even though it’s a deep place, and sometimes they’re deep because they’re hard times to walk through. But I’ve come to believe through my Christian walk that those deep places are what make us strong and what make us more like Christ. How can we want to deny them or turn them away? We have to spend time in those deep places so that we can reach the high places.”
What led to the writing of The Forgiving Hour…
I didn’t know if I had the talent or the courage to write the book…My first husband had multiple extramarital affairs…but the first affair was what the story was based upon. One day the mistress came to our house to pick up my husband, so I saw her…Three months after that, we put our marriage back together as best as unbelievers could. Three years after that, I was attending a Christian conference… a young woman came over and joined us at our table… suddenly I realized that this was the mistress. I knew she’d come to the table knowing who I was, I just didn’t know why she’d come to the table…I would love to tell you that I was very spiritual for the whole conference and just soaked it all in, but the honest truth is that all I knew was where this gal was seated throughout the day. When I went home that day, I spent the night asking God why she had come to the table… About 3 o’clock in the morning, God spoke to me very clearly and said she was there because I needed to forgive her. I said to the Lord, “I forgave her, I forgave him, everything is fine, fine, fine!” He said, “No, she needs you to tell her you forgive her.” I stood up, and I raised my fist to the ceiling and I said, “You’re God. You tell her.” But by 6 o’clock in the morning God had His way with me…I found her at the conference the next day… I said to her, “I know who you are and I forgive you.” I can’t tell you how much that changed her life, but I know that it changed mine. It freed me forever from ever holding onto bitterness…
God had to do a lot of healing in my heart and in my life to prepare me for that place where I could actually tell that story. I had to be willing to wait but also to hear when it was time.
What led to the writing of A Promise Kept…
I married Jerry in 1989. Unbeknownst to me he was an alcoholic… I had no understanding of addictions at that time…It took about three years for things to get so bad for him that there was no hiding it from me. We were married for 17 years with alcoholism being the predominant feature of our marriage… There were many very painful hard times…when you’re married to an alcoholic, it’s a lonely place to be.
The first time Jerry went into the DTs it drove me back to the foot of the cross…I held on to the foot of the cross until I could feel the slivers in the palms of my hands. One of the things that I have learned is that’s exactly where ...