Mona wrote a novel in 2018
Hope from Stone is a powerful narrative, a character driven story with a lively plot. It has robust detail, believable exaggeration, humor, and strong dialogue.
It takes the protagonist through a process of developing a relationship with God, from trusting her intuition more than popular opinion.
Hope from Stone identifies with modern pop culture by exploring spirituality, dysfunction, stress, and personal choice.
It is a Christian story that starts from the protagonist's secretive, flimsy, naïve perspective about her faith that evolves into a rock solid foundation of hope.
Hope from Stone provides MSers with much needed optimism and inspiration regardless of the condition of their health. Its an informative read for caregivers as well.
A novel about girl in her 20’s living with MS.
Vigorous, independent, stubborn and sometimes difficult to get along with, 28-year-old Rozalind has Multiple Sclerosis.
Through endless appointments, she desperately searches for a cure while trying to make sense of her new condition.
Out of options, she moves home. As Roz becomes more despondent and isolated, her faithful dog, Deputy, is her main companion.
After her mother is unexpectedly faced with a serious illness of her own, Roz builds an inner life with her own growing awareness of God, and her world begins to change.
She moves from a cynical, fault-finding victim to a calm, secure, empowered woman of age.
This fictionalized memoir is an engaging story of courage and hope.
A novel about girl in her 20’s living with MS.
Vigorous, independent, stubborn and sometimes difficult to get along with, 28-year-old Rozalind has Multiple Sclerosis.
Through endless appointments, she desperately searches for a cure while trying to make sense of her new condition.
Out of options, she moves home. As Roz becomes more despondent and isolated, her faithful dog, Deputy, is her main companion.
After her mother is unexpectedly faced with a serious illness of her own, Roz builds an inner life with her own growing awareness of God, and her world begins to change.
She moves from a cynical, fault-finding victim to a calm, secure, empowered woman of age.
This fictionalized memoir is an engaging story of courage and hope.
Welcome to Living with MS and Faith
You may live with Multiple
Sclerosis
but it doesn't
define you.
Your heart
does.
Whether you’re new, nearly new or a seasoned MSer there is much light to be found.
I hope I can inspire you to strengthen your faith. It will pay huge dividends.
During the first seven years of having MS (from a graphic designer to a disability pension) I made mighty beginnings down various alternative health roads. I found patches of light that kept me going, but they didn’t last. It was like a big game of hide and seek, moving in and out of the light trying to outdo the dark. Until 2015 when I moved into the light permanently.
I’ve always been a believer but never really knew what that meant or how it could help me. Having MS deepened my faith to a joyous point I thought would never last. But here I am stronger than ever. Yes, the MS did turn to SPMS and I did have to move into assisted living but its worked out beautifully.
I’m convinced if we heal our insides, it gives our outsides the best chance to follow suit. I'm not saying you'll be rid of MS but I am saying it can become the less-factor in your life, or it has in mine.
When Covid hit, big as it was, it didn’t overwhelm me, nor dampen me. I actually wrote a book about it because thats the same time I moved. Covid was like the world slowed down to my pace for people to see for themselves the joy to be found living at that pace, one tiny bite at a time.
Regardless of MS or Covid or any other major obstacle, dreams can trickled back. Some of mine have been realized, while some others were transformed. Still others, I’m working on. The disease doesn’t define me, nor does it for you.
I hope you find something here to inspire you to follow your dreams. Because we are all beautifully wonderfully made.
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