God can provide us with a glimpse of sunshine, even after the rain.

That’s a lesson author Georgette Prime-Godwin learnt recently. Her husband Brian Godwin died suddenly just as she was writing her latest spiritual book, The Woman at the Well. He was 52.

She was blindsided by the loss and had to cling even tighter to her faith.

But over the past few months God has blessed her perseverance.

Although the book hasn’t been released yet in stores, there’s already talk of it being turned into a movie. It was also nominated for a Dan Poynter global e-book award.

“The feedback from my book went beyond my expectations,” she said. “I didn’t know what I was anticipating, but it’s all been truly humbling.”

The book will be sold in stores in North America and Rev Prime-Godwin believes the best is yet to come.

“We had a trailer based on the book made and on May 2 of this year it was pitched in Hollywood,” she said.

“There were 14 producers at the meeting and I had an agent present it for me. Thirteen liked it. One said it should be considered for a movie of the week for TV; another said it could be considered for the big screen, another suggested independent film.

“I was really honoured. Even though all of them said they weren’t interested at this time, the fact that they saw the potential in it really humbled me because I didn’t know where this was going.”

Rev Prime-Godwin said she wouldn’t have got through the writing process without support from her late husband.

“I wrote this one in June and got the first copy on December 3,” she said. “My husband died just shortly before that, but he was the one telling me to get the story out. Now whenever I read the book it brings me a bit of comfort. He really inspired me a lot to stay focused on it.”

The Woman at the Well is a fictional novel based on the Bible.

“It’s a very moving and deep story, but it’s not for the soft-hearted,” Rev Prime-Godwin said. “It’s a book that considers generational curses and it takes you through a generation of women who have been impacted by certain circumstances — from poverty and abuse to rape.

“It hits on a few subject matters and asks the question: how then do you move from point A to B, past the hurt to a place of healing?

“It was based on the parable of the woman at the well. Really, the essence of that is one of forgiveness. Jesus could have found fault with the woman for having many different men and could have called her all sorts of names, but instead at the well is where she found hope.”

She insists the book isn’t geared towards Christians or church folks, but rather those who might have stepped away from God.

“I am a preacher and one of my passions is reaching people who never come into a church and writing helps me to do that,” she said.

“The essence of the book is to draw them back to Jesus Christ, but not necessarily to a building or a church.”

Rev Prime-Godwin works full time as the director of learning for the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club; she received her theology degree from a seminary in May 2012.

She said writing was a very spiritual activity for her.

“I had actually never written before my first book in April of last year, so this is all new to me.

“I teach a lot of spiritual leadership seminars and thought my second book would be a sequel to the first called The Nehemiah Prototype 2, but I had been working on it for almost a week and couldn’t get past eight pages so I decided that couldn’t be the right one to pursue.

“When I write it’s definitely inspired by the Holy Spirit and only takes me seven or eight hours to do it.

“Then for this latest one I heard the story about the woman at the well and took it as a sign.”

Rev Prime-Godwin said her husband’s passing and the initial success of the book proved to her that God is always in control.

“There are going to be things in life, no matter how you prepare or try to plan, that don’t go your way. In the end God has the ultimate say,” she said.

“I have just been learning, and I am still learning, with such a shocking loss that I have to believe that God does all things for good. So right now I am living what I have preached for the past few years.”

Her faith is now more real to her than ever before. “God is not just a subject matter to be talked about. He is really real,” she said. “My whole life has shifted and things that would typically upset or frustrate me don’t move me anymore. I have learnt what’s important and simply live in the moment. Many people have stopped me in the street or wherever and said I’m strong, but I’m not. I have to rely on my faith. I have to wake up and put on my spiritual armour consistently.”

• The Woman at the Well: A Rauch Elohim Parable will be available at BookMart at Brown & Co and First Church of God Bookstore on North Shore. It costs $22 for the hard copy and $15 for paperback.

• For more information visit www.thewomanatthewell.net; or Facebook page: Georgette Prime-Godwin the Author.