Tag Archives: Hell

I Hear Him and I Surrender

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 [...]

Questioning Faith

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 [...]

The Sound of Silence

          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 [...]