Compelled To Write, New Author Explores The Dynamics Of Love And Finds It In God's Eternal Embrace

Shirlee Simpson had never written a book. She did not consider herself to be a writer or public speaker.But Shirlee had a story to tell-one that she felt would be helpful to others and at the same time glorify the Lord.So, six years after her husband's death, she sat down in a vacation condo in Orlando and began to write out by hand her life story-including the sense of abandonment and rejection that she had experienced, the abuse she suffered as a child, the immense pain of divorce and then grief, and a struggle with a lack of self-esteem."I had always journaled," Shirlee said. "But then, one day, I felt compelled to write my story."Shirlee calls the experience a "spiritual marker" as, through her writing, she was able to understand that while she had searched for love throughout her life, she truly found it only through the Lord."We see what we are by looking back," she said, explaining how writing the book helped her to work through the issues that she had been struggling
with. "I wanted to live again, to get beyond my grief, to not 'be a widow' for the rest of my life. I wanted to write my love story, but God moved me to write a true love story."The result is Shirlee's new book, Eternal Embrace; The Pursuit of Romance. It has been published by Pleasant Word and can be ordered on line at [/product.asp?pid=1666&search=6&select=browser&ss=41].After a lifetime of struggle and disappointment, Shirlee found her soul mate when she married Larry Simpson in 1981. As she explained, "I thought that I would live happily ever after only to find the death of another dream," when Larry died suddenly from a heart attack in 1997 after 16 years of marriage.Again cast adrift, seeking for the fulfillment that she had experienced in her love for her husband, Shirlee began to see that true love, that which fulfills, is beyond the human love relationships that we have.Eternal Embrace is not just an autobiography or a guidebook, it is much more. "It is
more of a testimony than a how-to-do-it book," Shirlee said. In its pages, the reader will find Shirlee's witness of God's working in her life to discover Him and His eternal love that eternally embraces us."It is about the process of finding healing and restoration from wounds that held me captive from realizing the fullness of God's love and His intimate pursuit of putting together the pieces of my shattered life," she said.Shirlee envisions the book more as a ministry to others than an exercise in self-discovery that helped her get her life back on track. "My prayer is that others who are going through the same search for eternal love will be able to say, 'if God did this for her, why can't he do it for me?'""Eternal Embrace enables the reader to look at their past in light of the truths that I found through the unfolding of a recurring dream," she said. "The dream's meaning continues to be elusive throughout the story until one day it comes to an end. It is there that th
e true romance begins. By use of the dream that continued to reoccur throughout many years I discovered an intimate romance with God the Creator and the child He created for His Glory.""God knows you by name," Shirlee explained. "We are never out of His sight though we often feel lost, abandoned and alone on this journey. But, He does not leave you alone without the ability to find answers to the many questions you have. He lovingly romances His children with a love that keeps on going from eternity past to eternity future. No matter how deep a wound or how dark a memory there is a place where hope is found in God's eternal love and embrace.""The pursuit of romance is fulfilled when God romances us," Shirlee said. "It is better than anything that we can comprehend. There is really no word that can really describe the comprehensive love that God gives to His children."Shirlee wrote the book as a testimony and a witness. Now, she wants to use it to reach others. "I want to h
ave enough books to give them to people who can use them," she said. "Some people use business cards, others use tracts. I want to use the book as a tract."In Eternal Embrace, Shirlee Simpson, the woman who was not an author or professional communicator, witnesses with clarity and remarkable transparency concerning her struggles in life and the profound love that she has experienced and wants others who are going through a uncertainty and dark times to know about.

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