By Abigail Headley
“I am writing with the hope that some children or young people will not experience the wasted years that I did as I stubbornly pursued a path of self-destruction viz atheism. During that time my gospel (which was no gospel) had been, ‘I’m not like those weak people who have created a god to prop up themselves’. Now I just marvel at the tenacity of a God who ‘broke down my walls with the strength of His love’. I want others to experience this love at an early age,” said Jean Ann Field Ridley.
Field Ridley is a former atheist turned Christian and her transition to pursuing her passion for sharing the gospel through writing, she said, taught her the strength of God’s love. She told this newspaper that she hopes to convey the message to young readers that they are God’s favourites, an idea that empowers all children of colour. Thus she has written the first book in what she said will be a series.