I have always wanted to write a novel. I started several over the years, but they neve went anywhere. Either life got in the way or the story fizzled out quickly. Almost two years ago, a story was given to me to write. When I say given, I mean I did not plan to write a book. It just came. One morning I sat down at my computer to do my daily review of the news, weather, and other information. For some reason, I opened up the Word program and began to write. I was several paragraphs in before I even realized what was happening. There was no forethought to writing, it just started.
For the next several weeks I wrote without even telling my wife Melissa what was going on. I wasn’t sure if this was going to amount to anything or not. I had started several novels over the years – abandoning them when I realized that I just didn’t have a story to tell. But it was different this time. The story was all there. In fact, I wrote the last chapter of the book after writing the first three chapters. I know, not the way you are supposed to write, but it taught me to write whatever I was given. So, the rest of the chapters were written as they came to me and not in chronological order.
So why did this time prove different than all of the others? I have two answers. The first is because I could not not write the story. As the process went on, my mind was filled with the characters and their stories. I simply had to put it down so it would get out of my head. Second, because I believe there are truths in the book that need to be shared. I was moved to tell this story about Christians struggling to answer the question “What would Jesus do?” during troubled times.
The book is called The Haven: A Light in the Darkness. Most Christian End Times fiction begins with the Rapture and tells the stories of those left behind. The Haven series begins almost two years before the Rapture and chronicles the stories of several Christians struggling to cope with an increasingly secular and anti-Christian world. 
Mitch and Mary Harrison, along with their friends struggle to survive in a world quickly falling apart. Government restrictions, moral decay, and food shortages make it difficult for them and their ten friends to survive and carry out their calling to help others. Doing so requires taking risks and stepping out in faith. But their work is worth all the risk as families in the area are on the verge of starving without help. As the world accelerates toward global government with all of the implications that come with it, The Haven twelve courageously continue to follow Jesus’ call to love your neighbor as yourself. Even when one of those neighbors causes the loss of one of them.
I hope you will choose to read The Haven and ask yourself if you are prepared to face struggles with courage and faith. While in the book The Haven is a place, our true haven is within us.
This is the first in a three-part series. Book two is in process and should be out before the end of 2023.
You can find The Haven at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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