Contact: Abigail Davidson, Publicity Assistant, WinePress Publishing Group, 360-802-9758, abigail@winepressgroup.com

ENUMCLAW, Wash., Nov. 13 /Christian Newswire/ -- "Mom, I'm pregnant."

Seventeen-year-old Laurie Lewis had been enrolled in Bible college three weeks when she phoned her mother with the devastating news.

As Gay Lewis tried to take in her daughter's revelation, her ears began buzzing and her eyes blurred.

"I'd rehearsed my reaction should this ever happen to one of my daughters," writes Gay Lewis in her new book, "Bittersweet" (WinePress Publishing, 2008). "I'd be calm and cool, and I'd assure her that our love for her wasn't threatened in any way. Then I'd help her begin to work through the long months ahead."

But all Lewis wanted to do was cry.

After telling Laurie she loved her, Lewis hung up, stunned. Her own daughter was now one of the million U.S. teenagers who become pregnant each year. One million and one.

A few days later, after much prayer, Lewis penned the most important letter of her life to Laurie, whose college was in another state:

...I'm not embarrassed or ashamed of you or afraid of what people would think if they found out. I'm certainly not mad at you, or thinking you're "stupid." I love you, probably more at this moment than ever before...

...I will support and stand behind any decision you make concerning the baby... I don't know what your decision should be. But there is one thing that you and all the rest of us have to do. We have to give this baby to God. Completely. Totally. He will determine the rest...

God did determine the rest, as Lewis attests to in "Bittersweet," an updated, expanded version of her 1984 book. Lewis recounts Laurie's pregnancy, her decision to release her baby for adoption, and the miracle of restoration - that occurred during the following years , and continued when Laurie and her "baby" were reunited - 25 years later.

"God always keeps His amazing promise to give 'beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for a spirit of heaviness,'" says Lewis. "There is nothing too dark, too ugly or too sinful for Him to transform, as only He can."

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