Today, I am honored to host aspiring author Kristena Tunstall on Patti's Porch. Pull up a chair, grab a glass of lemonade, and join us as Kristena speaks from the heart about the way God used a tragedy to start her on her writing journey.
Welcome, Kristena!
I have been invited to guest blog here today and at first I really didn’t know what I’d write about. I put a little flag in my email to remind me I needed to write something but kept putting it off.
Then it struck me. How did I get
to a place that I even have a writing journey to talk about? I am kind of
dumbfounded sometimes as I can think back to high school and writing was the
last thing on my mind. It was a chore to be precise. I could never envision
myself as a writer as English was so hard for me. Getting a C was really good.
It just never came easily as I also have a learning disability called Dyslexia
(thank goodness for MS Word J).
Then on July 1, 2008, my one and
only 8 ½ year old child came home early from her special needs summer school
program with diarrhea. As a mom you think, “Oh, this is just a simple case of
diarrhea. It’ll be gone in no time.”
Well, there wasn’t anything
simple about it. Only fifteen days later on July 16, my husband and I had to
make the hardest decision of our lives when we decided to take her off life
support as we were told our little girl would never be the same and was forever
gone.
It was during her time over that
two weeks and two days (which included staying at four different hospitals, while
having complete kidney failure, a stroke, cerebral hemorrhage and cardiac
arrest) that I started to keep a daily journal of sorts online for my family
and friends as to her current condition. This all started because somehow she
contracted E. coli.
That daily journal is how my
writing journey officially started. Then on October 21, 2008, I was sitting at
home having all these thoughts swirling around that started with this, “The
loss of a child, how deep it must go.” It just kept swirling and swirling and I
knew right then I needed to get those words down so I sat at my dining room
table and started to type on my laptop.
What I wrote that day ended up
being the first post of a dedication website on behalf of my daughter. (To read
that post in full, click here) What I didn’t know then but know do is that writing turned out to be
an outlet, or cathartic, for myself. I could get out all the feelings into my
writing and to share my journey with those that knew and loved me.
What has happened since is people
I have never met before, and probably never will, find my website doing simple
little searches for things. They then read her hospital story and are so
touched they leave a comment. I am blessed to see the impact of how sharing my
writing has been for others.
It has been through this journey
that I have realized God has given me this gift of writing and that through it
I have the ability to touch other people’s lives. People see a strength in me
that I don’t see in myself. Somehow I am able to encourage others as they see I
am making it through this tragedy and I am okay.
The blessings I’ve received
through this loss never cease to amaze me. I am in the process of writing a
book about my daughter. I’m also writing my first fiction book. I am able to
use the experiences of my life and transform them in a way that may be able to
touch other people’s lives in a positive way. If someone can look at me and see
that I am okay and making it through that maybe they will be able to see the
same thing in themselves.
So my writing journey has been a
road of discovery and how God has showed me, with more blessings than I could
have ever imagined, this is the path He wants me to take.
If you feel led, please visit my
daughter’s dedication website and even read about Her Hospital Story. If you leave a comment, I will personally answer it. I love to hear from anyone
who has taken their own time to visit there.
If you would like to stay up to
date with my latest fiction writing journey, please visit my author web site.
Thank you for taking the time to
learn about my writing journey and how I have come to where I am today.
Kristena, thank you so much for sharing your story with us.
Leave a comment by midnight July 30th about Kristena's post and you will be placed in a drawing to win a free copy of the new release from Bethany House Publishers Angels, Miracles, and Heavenly Encounters: Real-life Stories of Supernatural Events complied by James Stuart Bell. Be sure to leave an email address!
Thanks for reading my blog!
Kristena, thank you so much for sharing your story with us.
Leave a comment by midnight July 30th about Kristena's post and you will be placed in a drawing to win a free copy of the new release from Bethany House Publishers Angels, Miracles, and Heavenly Encounters: Real-life Stories of Supernatural Events complied by James Stuart Bell. Be sure to leave an email address!
Thanks for reading my blog!
5 Comments:
Patti, thank you for having me on today and allowing me to share my story.
Patti, thanks so much for having Kristena on your blog. Since i found her website a few months ago, the way she has shared her heart has been an inspiration to me - this as I attempt to write my son's story. He passed away in February of this year at the age of 24. we miss him so much and the writing is both a joyful experience and sorrowful one. I know Kristena gets that in a way few others can. Cindy Regnier
ksucindy(at)excite(dot)com
Thank you for your comment, Cindy. Prayers going out to you as you mourn the loss of your son. I'll enter you in the drawing!
Cindy, thank you for that beautiful comment. You and I have talked several times. I'm glad that we have been able to connect in a way where most can't possibly understand yet wish we didn't have to understand either. When I read words like you have written it does two thing. One, it touches my heart. And two, it lets me know that I am doing the right thing and that I am listening to God's calling to write.
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