God has a great sense of humor.  I know, because I’m one of His crazy jokes. You see, for years I wanted to be a writer, but one day God distinctly told me that it wasn’t my time because I didn’t have anything to say yet.  It wasn’t exactly what I wanted to hear, but what came next was truly outrageous.

The psychiatric department in which I worked experienced some conflict between staff. That’s when God prompted me to write for the bathroom wall.  Though it wasn’t what I envisioned, I decided not to argue with the Almighty. I grabbed a poster board and wrote out what I hoped would be a message of healing. Sheepishly I sneaked into the bathroom to post my writing. 

A coworker amazed me when he approached with misty eyes and asked if I had written the poster. In a staff meeting another coworker admonished the entire department to head to the bathroom if anyone needed encouragement. Some even admitted to taking patients’ family members in to read the wall.

Now, after many years as a registered nurse, God is telling me write again.  

Carlie Sweetwater’s Spectacular Suicide is a series of novels exploring hope and despair. It begins with a very lethal suicide attempt that lands Carlie in a local hospital in cardiac arrest. In her case a little dying brings a whole new reason to live as her near-death experience brings an unexpected twist. Here she meets a self-proclaimed suicide specialist who promises more than she can imagine. The problem is whether she can trust, and that’s something that can’t be rushed. After decades of having no one trustworthy in her life, faith certainly has to be earned. With everything that’s wrong in Carlie’s world, she finds that faith is really all she has.