misfit1965

Profile

City: Fresno
Country: United States

Joined: Jul 2009

I’ve had a passion for writing since I was nine years old. I’ve written three novels, unpublished. I mainly enjoy writing novels or longer pieces of work.
I am especially influenced by my Christian faith. I want God to use me to write for Him. I am influenced by the writings of C.S.Lewis, A.W. Tozer, Charles Hadden Spurgeon, and Oswald Chambers. But mostly I am influenced by the Holy Bible, the New King James version because of its poetic quality. I enjoy the writings of Paul, especially the Book of Romans and the Psalms. I hope this will influence the type of poetry I write.
I majored in History at CSUF. I have a real love for history. So, some of my poems might have historical references to them.
My prayer is that the Lord Jesus will use my humanity, imperfections and all. I pray that my writings will reflect God’s love for humanity.
I’d like to start by sharing the poetry I have created over the years with the RedBubble audience and anyone God will lead to the writings of misfit1965.

Personally, I was born in 1965, thus misfit1965. I always felt as if I were different, thus misfit. I am the single parent to a teenage daughter. Some of my writings have to do with the angst of being a parent to a teenager. My teenager was diagnosed with Bi-polar disorder at age 9. I hope to share my feelings and struggles of raising a child who suffers from this mental illness.
I also suffer from a mental illness. I hope to share my struggles with others who also suffer from borderline personality disorder. More significantly my episodes with cutting. My poem entitled “The Rage” deals with some of those feelings.
I also write about the vulnerabilities of being a woman in relationships. The difficulities I have had. Some of my work reflects that.
I hope to show a broader perspective of myself both as a woman, and as a woman who suffers from mental illness and as a mother of a child with mental illness. I also hope to show the relationship I have with Christ in the context of a woman who suffers these things. I really believe God loves me in spite of myself, and His grace covers me, and His grace is the hope I have in changing the things that cause my suffering.
It is my hope, as I try to share more of myself in my writings to let people know that Christ is bigger than the things that cause our suffering. Christ is the hope of my salvation, and my day to day living. Jesus Christ is the saviour of misfit1965.