Sometimes bad things happen to good people - even Christians.

Not long after I started writing novels, I befriended a woman who had lost her husband in a drunk driving accident. The most amazing thing, though, wasn't her loss but her determination to remain at peace with God and her situation. I asked her how she'd survived, how she'd been able to go on after losing the love of her life...Her answer was simply the most profound truth - one we must all grasp if we are to survive the trials of life. She told me she'd made a decision to forgive. Looking him directly in the eyes, she told the drunk driver that she had forgiven him. Waiting for Morning was born of that time, that friendship. And that lesson so desperately needed by all of us.