J. Hirtle

J Hirtle presents four short stories of faith. Faith has no limits as revealed in these inspirational stories spanning from the fields of Vietnam to the frigid winters of Kenai, Alaska, from the eyes of a young boy to the mind of a drug addict. Shadow of Faith will take the reader through life's greatest challenges in search of truth.

The quiet town of Patriot, Texas will forever remember it as 'That Sunday'. A chilly December morning when Frank Lynn Dawson walked into the Baptist Church bearing the town's name and started shooting. The man he came to kill, Samuel Goode, was missing from church that Sunday. So, others would fall. Others would die.Ten years later from Texas' Death Row, Frank Dawson will again call out the name of Patriot's favorite son. With only days remaining before he is executed he will sit across from this Texas rancher and ask him a about God.Is there enough faith left in Sam Goode to answer the killer's question? Or did that Sunday destroy all that is Sam Goode?"Whosoever Believes" is a must read for anyone who has ever struggled with what comes after the question, Why God?

"Why do you do this?" I asked her."I want to go numb." She told me.For twenty years my wife battled an addiction to prescribed pain killers. Opiates separated her need for a husband, for a family and for God, slowly replacing them with the need to go numb. This is her story. And mine. A story of how my faith was challenged as I walked through life with an addict, entering valleys where light never shines. Two decades of searching for hope in the dim, jagged Valley of Opiates, where doctors carelessly dispense the coveted painkiller without guilt. Over and over the opiates conquered, until one day she fell. It was time to write her story.

One last Saturday night. A jukebox playing sad songs. A redhead in a yellow sweater. For Jacko, Rock bottom had never looked so good.

Scott Kelso knew the challenges he faced being a single parent. He trusted that with God's help he would raise his children to face life knowing the right decisions to make. What he didn't know was that even in a small town in Northern Vermont the temptations that his children would face included drugs, alcohol and a life free of God. Follow this father's journey in "Broken Crosses". J Hirtle is also the author of- The Wooden Box Faith Alaska and Beautiful Dying