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October 12, 2012,
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54 Comments,
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Author:
Running from Hell with El
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Categories:
Childhood, Inspiration, Philosophy, Running, Spirituality, writing
Tags: God, Heaven, Hell, life purpose, overcoming abuse, surrender, writing
This is an excerpt from my final chapter from I Run: Running from Hell with El Many people have asked me, often with great exasperation, what I was running away from. For years, friends told me to stop. Over and over and over again, people told me to rest, to stand still, to stop. But I was too scared. I was scared of myself, of the demons that danced and pranced inside me. I was scared of dying, perhaps by [...]
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May 20, 2012,
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37 Comments,
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Author:
Running from Hell with El
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Categories:
Inspiration, Life, Self-Help, Spirituality
Tags: doubt, faith, God, Hell, questioning, Religion
I don’t talk or write much about religion because it confuses me. I am not an atheist or an agnostic. I am not a Catholic or a Methodist. I am not a Baptist or a Buddhist. But I do believe in God. I try to be true to my beliefs, whatever they are on a given day. In my tentatively titled, upcoming novel, Ripple, one of my main characters is a mother whose daughter was raped. After she takes matters [...]
To kick off a new guest post series, I have asked my friend Marian to talk about a difficult time where she went through Hell, so to speak. I am overjoyed that she is kicking this off for us because her story, as you will see, is a wonderful one. Marian is a happily married writer who lives in Southern California. She married her best friend almost twelve years ago and together they have three crazy children. Her mantra, “Just [...]