Het \u2018n engel al oor jou pad gekom? Daardie o\u00ebnskynlike gewone mens, maar daar is iets anders aan di\u00e9 mens. Iets onbeskryfliks. Iets wat by jou bly en rusplek in jou siel kry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk glo van kleins af daar is engele wat jou lewenspad kruis. Dis hoekom ek so mal was oor City of Angels. Dit is nou wel Hollywood, maar ek het baie in my lewe die teenwoordigheid van \u2018n engel ervaar,\u201d s\u00ea Jan Vermeulen, die bekroonde skrywer in wie se nuutste jeugboek engele \u2018n groot rol speel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy vertel di\u00e9 boek, \u201cHoeveel Tande het \u2018n Engel?\u201d het gestalte gekry nadat Luca, \u2018n Christelike uitgewer in Lapa en Penguin Random House se stal, hom gevra het om \u2018n geestelike jeugfiksieboek te skryf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk wou nie \u2018n storie met \u2018n Christelike sousie daaroor, of wat te prekerig of te morbied is, skryf nie. Daar moet \u2018n spanningslyn wees en in my bediening het ek geleer jongmense se grootste vrees is hul eie dood. Toe besluit ek om jongmense met die moontlikheid van hul eie dood te konfronteer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Engel-inspirasie<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cKanker is w\u00eareldwyd die grootste oorsaak van kindersterftes. Hier op Despatch was daar die hartseer verhaal van die sestienjarige Martin Crouse wat in 2013 met beenkanker gediagnoseer is en vier jaar later gesterf het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die boek is nie Martin se storie nie, maar met die hulp van sy ouers Andr\u00e9 en Elmarie, kon Vermeulen die belewinge, prosesse van kankerbehandeling en emosies lewensgetrou inskryf in die storielyn. Dit was veral die gesin, pa, ma en twee broers se deurentydse ervaringe met die engele w\u00eareld, en selfs met tye nou nog, wat Vermeulen geraak het en daarom is die boek aan Martin opgedra. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Die storie speel af oor \u2018n tydperk van drie weke en gaan oor twee tieners wat albei kanker het, hul vrese en hoe hulle mekaar bemoedig. Die een \u2018n gelowige en die ander een is nie \u2018n \u2018kerksmens\u2019 nie. Natuurlik is daar ook tienerliefde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie karakters vra wat is engele, is dit geeste of ouens met vlerke? In die Bybel vertel Abraham hoe hy op \u2018n stadium engele kos gegee het sonder dat hy geweet het dit was engele. Toe werk ek met die idee van mense wat engele in jou lewe is. Hulle eet, so dan moet engele tande h\u00ea, maar hoeveel tande?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDit gaan oor menslike ondersteuning en ook die bo-natuurlike ondersteuning. En dit is waar die titel vandaan kom,\u201d verduidelik Vermeulen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hy vertel van sy eie aangrypende ervaring met \u2018n engel op Despatch en hoe hy di\u00e9 belewing ook subtiel in die storie ingeskryf het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie storie l\u00ea my na aan die hart oor my belewing met \u2018n engel en omdat ek Martin \u2018n keer of wat ontmoet het voor sy dood. Beide ervaringe het ek deel van die storie gemaak.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die boek is dig verweef met uiteenlopende emosies en hoewel jongmense die hoofkarakters is, is dit \u2018n lewensstorie wat ook vir volwasse lesers geskik is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWat vir my lekker is om vir Luca te skryf, is dat ek my twee w\u00earelde kan kombineer en teologie in die storielyne kan inskryf sonder om prekerig te raak. Soos my dogter vir \u2018n vriendin oor my jeugroman Asem ges\u00ea het, \u2018die boek gaan nie oor die Here nie, maar die Here is in die boek\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSkryf is vir my amper soos verslawing. Ek kan nie ophou nie. As ek in \u2018n dag nie geskryf het nie, dan voel dit vir my die lewe het by my verbygegaan,\u201d s\u00ea Vermeulen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vermeulen, \u2018n predikant van Despatch, is \u2018n veelsydige skrywer met verskeie boektitels in verskillende genres agter sy naam. Hy skryf misdaadfiksie, jeugromans, nie-fiksie sowel as geestelike boeke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHoeveel Tande het \u2018n Engel?\u201d is beskikbaar by Bargain Books in Corkwood Square op Kariega.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Het \u2018n engel al oor jou pad gekom? Daardie o\u00ebnskynlike gewone mens, maar daar is iets anders aan di\u00e9 mens. Iets onbeskryfliks. 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