"All Things Hidden"
by Judy Candis
Author Testimony
" I cannot remember a time,
when Christ was not a major force in my life. When I would
hear people talk about the month and year they gave their
life to Christ, I used to wonder if maybe I was off track
somewhere. But my relationship with Christ has been such
that even when I think I might not be pleasing Him in a proper
or conventional manner, He makes it known to me just what
He expects.
Such is the case with my writing career. I fell in love
with the written word by reading my father's comic books
at the age of nine or ten. Though I didn't care for the super
hero's, I devoured the horror and mystery books. I could
never get enough of reading and when I learned the school
library and public library could fulfill all my reading needs,
I remember thanking God for such a blessing as FREE BOOKS!
However,
at that time, (giving my age away here), there was almost
nothing with black characters. So I changed the books around
in my head to fit me.
Soon I was writing my own stories, and reading them to my baby sisters at
bedtime. My father even paid me once to read one of my stories
to his friends. WOW!
My first royality.
I also used my stories for school bookreports, and found
that English classes came easy to me. Deciding a writing
career was what I most wanted soon followed. I talked to
God a lot about the idea, and found Him placing me in many
arenas where I'd have to write.
I even prayed that He would give me an opportunity to write for a living, and
within a few weeks, the Lord had opened the door for me to begin writing as
a journalist. (He knew I still had a lot to learn and in those years, boy did
I).
But what I loved writing most were horror novels, yet I
didn't feel comfortable asking the Lord to bless me writing
about ghosts and demons. I will never forget what He told
me. He said since the beginning of time, when Cain slew Able,
there have been more than enough monsters in human form and
I could write a zillion stories about the war between good
and evil with His blessing.
I was elated and started writing stories about man's endless
battle with his brother. As I began to construct the plot
for ALL THINGS HIDDEN, this continued to surface in my mind.
The very fact that many men and women believed themselves
to be serving our heavenly Father by destroying his fellow
man was too much for me to ignore.
Also at the time, I was traveling my own walk through life struggles and despair.
It was as if Jael's pain was my pain. Yet, with each page I wrote, I found
myself building up my own innner faith. The Bible passages I used were direct
messages to me from God. His way of bringing me through. I love Him so!!!
I learned more about where I stood with my faith than in any other time in
my life. The Lord used the writing of this book to deal with me on a very personal
level. Now I have come full-circle. ALL THINGS HIDDEN explodes with the victories
God has promised each of us and confirms He will never leave us. No matter
what."
Judy Candis |
GLORY GIRLS™
March 2005
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