A Note From the Author

“Everything is meaningless.”

- From Ecclesiastes 1:2

I can’t help thinking about this verse as I’ve been rewriting Dear Hearts. I first wrote this book as an atheist, and I’m sure you can only imagine the type of scenes I worked through this story.

It scared even me.

But I took it as a challenge from God to rewrite my characters’ story in a way that still highlights their brokenness yet is still accessible to the average adult reader. There are still some hard themes in this book, and it definitely won’t win me Clean Christian Book of the Year. But this book is truth. This book is what happens when you stop leaning on God to only lean on each other.

Disaster, my friends.

Mitch and Elena are two people who have been broken since childhood and are merely playing at adulthood without the benefit of true healing. When we live life through our own volition and refuse to submit ourselves to God, everything truly is meaningless.

Everything truly is just dust in the wind.

As you’ll see as the story unfolds, there are hard consequences to Mitch and Elena’s choices. Despite believing they’re victims of circumstances, they, like all people, have been given the gift of choice by God. Instead of asking God to help them make the right decisions for themselves and for their family, they seek self-satisfaction, whether it be satisfying a sexual temptation or attempting to purchase an alternative reality that will never truly exist.

I pray as you read this book, you understand the heart behind it and take this cautionary tale for what it is: an attempt to pull back the curtain on man’s selfish desires and to exhibit what life is like when we rely on other human beings to “fix” our wounds and not the Father who made us.