Mari Benning, wife, mother of four children and a dog, began her love of writing in elementary school where she expressed herself through journaling, songwriting, poems, and short stories, a gift encouraged by her mother. But her love of writing soon came to a halt when her works were no longer viewed as a release of creative expression but a heap of condemning confessions.  She burned her writings vowing to never again compose another sentence.  After years of soul searching she found herself penning again.  Now gleaming with light, she posts her writings in the hallways of darkness as rays of hope to free others who long to break free.