A Spiritual Journey

While this book has been written in an autobiographical style, it is by no means an autobiography. While it does follow my life from the beginning to the present, (I hope not the end), it is not the full story of my life, as any who reads it that knows or has known me will attest to.

          It is intended to show what can happen when you do just a small fraction of the things you are told to do ,listen to the still small voice that tries to direct you to your purpose in life and go through some of the doors that are opened for you.

          I became painfully aware of that voice very early in my life and fought it with almost disastrous results before making it a part of me and trying to follow its direction, at least part of the time. When I did, wonderful things happened. When I did not, I paid the price.

            The voice I am talking about, to me represents the voice of God. I hear this voice on a regular basis, really a daily basis, from somewhere in the back of my head, almost like a thought, but different. I have also heard this voice speak vocally, just as I would hear you or anyone else. I know when I say this that there are going to be some who will be grateful to hear that someone else has heard God speak out loud, for they too have heard the voice and are afraid to admit that they have, for fear of what someone will say or think. There will be others who will get a good laugh out of it, and that too is good, for a good laugh is good for the soul. Then there will be those who will be angered to the point of accusing me of blasphemy or of telling an outright lie that too is all right. You see I know who I am, what I am and why I am. What someone else thinks of me does not, cannot change that one iota. I realize that my experiences are just that: mine. If you have not lived a similar experience ,someone else’s may be hard for you to accept. That is understandable. You see, to my knowledge, I have never been taken aboard a UFO by an alien, so it is hard for me to understand the experience of someone who has.   All that means is that I do not have a point of reference in my own experience for that particular experience, it does not mean that someone else has not had that experience.

          I was blessed, or cursed, depending on your point of view, in this life with both a mind that sought to know the unknown and a spirit that sought to experience the things of this life. I was not content to be told about something or to study something; I had to experience it from the inside out, to know what it actually felt like, not what someone said it felt like. I had to know the why, when and what for, of a lot of different things, mechanical, physical and spiritual.

            My father was a dreamer, and I had the privilege of making him understand how much I appreciated him passing this attribute on to me. My mother was and still is, an action person, as I write this she is 94 years old, lives alone, and has planted her sizable garden which she will work, harvest, preserve and giveaway. From her I inherited a very strong work ethic for which I have expressed my appreciation. So from the two of them I was endowed with the ability to dream dreams and the determination to turn those dreams into realities.

          This is what this book is about; how I did, and you can, prove the promises of God, that whatsoever we ask in the name of God, we can and will receive, that we are what we think we are and can be nothing else. That God has endowed us with the creative ability that is contained in our imagination. That anything we can think, can conceive and believe, we can achieve. If you doubt that, just look around you, every manmade item you see in your life started out as a thought, a dream, in someone’s imagination. From there it manifested as a reality.

          If this book convinces just one person of the truth of the above statements, convinces them to the point of believing and achieving, then the effort of this work of love will have proven to be worthwhile.