Featured Author: Valentine Furniss
Valentine Furniss writes from the cracks where faith meets doubt. In Glorious Imperfection, she reflects on belief, loss, and spiritual awakening, not to offer answers, but to invite honest questioning, vulnerability, and deeper reflection.
Finding Faith in the Cracks We Try to Hide
Valentine Furniss describes herself simply as a West Coast girl, and in many ways, her story is shaped by movement. From Southern to Northern California, from Eastern to Western Washington, each place added to her growing love of stories and her long-held dream of becoming an author. In 2021, that dream quietly became reality through self-publishing.
Her book, Glorious Imperfection: A Sinner’s Witness of a Good God, is a spiritual autobiography rooted not in certainty, but in honest questioning. Valentine does not write as a theologian or teacher. Instead, she writes as a witness—someone willing to sit with doubt, division, and discomfort in order to understand faith more deeply.
The seeds of the book were planted in 2017, after her divorce was finalized. Writing became a lifeline. Through a personal blog, she began processing pain, belief, and identity in real time. Years later, she realized those reflections had formed something larger. In 2021, she gathered those early posts—now only accessible through the book—and shaped them into a single narrative.
Set against the backdrop of 2020, a year that exposed deep fractures in society, Glorious Imperfection explores spiritual awakening, personal responsibility, and the challenge of reexamining what we think we know about God. Valentine turns to the Bible and classic American literature not to argue, but to ask better questions. Her central belief is simple yet profound: it was only when she admitted she knew nothing about God that understanding began to unfold.
In 2023, Valentine was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis—adding another layer of vulnerability and resilience to her story. Her writing remains what it has always been: an invitation. Not to agree, but to reflect. Not to follow, but to engage.
Glorious Imperfection: A Sinner’s Witness of a Good God is available on Kindle, Nook, and Amazon.
For more reflections, readers can visit her blog:
https://strengthmadeperfectinweaknessblog.wordpress.com/about/
