On a quiet Missouri farm, Marvin Wilmes’s childhood is shaped by the warmth of a sprawling Catholic family and the gentle rhythms of rural life....

Rising Beyond Hope by Marvin Wilmes

Books

Rising Beyond Hope

A Memoir of Grief, Loss, and Faith
From the series: Odyssey of Hope Series

On a quiet Missouri farm, Marvin Wilmes’s childhood is shaped by the warmth of a sprawling Catholic family and the gentle rhythms of rural life. But when a series of losses—his beloved dog, a cousin’s tragic drowning, the death of President Kennedy—shatter that innocence, Marvin’s faith begins to falter.

As he grows, the questions deepen: Why...

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A Quest for Freedom

Guardian Angel. Battlefield Memories. Destiny Arrives.

Roger Wilson is a seeker of truth. He and his best friend, Mark Myers have a bond unbreakable. His new friend, Wayne Bennett, is struggling to believe in something larger than himself.

An odd messenger named Zeke may have something more to say on both friendships as Roger is given a...

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Blog

The birth of the Odyssey of Hope series After all the drama surrounding

After all the drama surrounding Covid settled down in 2022, I entered a new season of life, started reweaving, cutting up, and revising stories I had already written, and birthed a new series, An Odyssey of Hope.

I captured a new vision as I began to grasp how I was called to write my story to a new audience with a new author “voice.”

I had struggled with faith throughout my life. Sometimes, it burned bright, other times the light dimmed, sometimes it went out totally leaving me in total...

On Eagle's Wings I have to say this past decade has been a whirlwind

I have to say this past decade has been a whirlwind journey since I first published Beyond the Horizon: A Memoir January of 2015.

2025 was not only declared the Jubilee of Hope by the late Pope Francis, but just three months before I was working through writer's block and resistance, confused about the direction I should take with my double length book.

I was a member of a Christian Writer's Group that met over Zoom every Monday morning. The title of the group was Momentum, yes designed to...

The birth of the Odyssey of Hope series The day after Christmas and the

The day after Christmas and the peace that remains.

We had a fun Christmas, the four of us, playing games in the morning and reading my wife's diary of the first days of my daughter's birth and adventures in our household.

The day after she was baptized at four months, the landlord showed up at our doorstep and gave us a 30 day notice to vacate as the house was going to be demolished to make way for a new apartment building project.

Yeah, 25 years a memories are beyond that, stretching faith...

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