Julie C Weidner

Time, Trials, and Triumphs Julie C Weidner

The poems and essays in this book express the realities of schizophrenia and mental illness, as it affects the author's life and thought processes. Julie Weidner brings the reader close to her world of darkness and confusion. The reader goes with Julie through her trials over time into the Light she has found in her faith in Christ, in her friendships, and in her triumphs over the illness's control of her life. Julie takes the reader through different stages of chaos and stability throughout her adult life, often expressing what darkness and Light mean to her. Time, Trials, and Triumphs is a testimony of the beginning of Julie's journey out of the darkness into the Light of her faith in Jesus Christ and into the light of clarity of thought. Julie gives people who are struggling permission to "surf" the waves of their emotions and circumstances and to live a calm, peaceful, and happy life. She offers those who fight with the spirit of suicide, permission to live. Schizophrenia affects approximately one person out of every one hundred people. In these essays and poems, Ms, Weidner shares the difficult reality of her life, hopes, and dreams that she once thought were lost to the ravages of mental illness, only to have them restored through faith, friends, and fortitude.