May
19
2012
A couple of weeks went by since the incident at the Hot ’N Tot. August, Diz, and the Nietos’ nephew, Little Chucky, were sitting at a table at the Jet Strip Club on Aviation Boulevard, close to LAX. August was going over some business with the club’s owner, Big Mac “Horse” McKenna, who was a [...]
May
19
2012
PREFACE This book has been a long time in the making, so please bear with me. At the beginning, as we embark on this adventure of the unexpected, you may feel dazed with new names and places, but I would have you rest in my assurance that you will not need to remember these particulars. [...]
May
17
2012
INTRODUCTION The purpose of this book is simple: to help ministries advance the Kingdom online and take the gospel to the world. This is quite a goal. But, thank God for technology because understanding and using it properly will help us all achieve this goal. Whether you are a storefront church or an individual with [...]
May
14
2012
From Chapter 7: “Angel John Reid to the Rescue” It was mid-afternoon before I finally had a moment to close my office door and begin to return some urgent phone calls. I suddenly felt shivers running up and down the length of my body as if I had been connected to a low voltage electrical [...]
May
06
2012
CHAPTER 5 After her first encounter with Fearless and the zone, Mom became increasingly proficient at entering it. When humans are distracted their eyes shift, a part of their body fidgets, and their breathing changes. As I observed Mom, she was spending less time distracted and more time focused. Now when she got upset or [...]
May
05
2012
CHAPTER IV Brannigan looked into Kindred‘s eyes. “I got a past…and some of it isn’t so good,” he said. Kindred reached for the whisky. “You might say I hooked up with the wrong folks,” said Brannigan. “You might even say it was them others who made me do some bad things. Course…if you did…you’d be [...]
May
04
2012
INTRODUCTION Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires – disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way. – Bernie S. Siegel I can’t tell you how other people react when they’re told they have cancer. I can only tell you how [...]
May
04
2012
Chapter 3: Your Authentic Self Beneath all the zealous pursuits of our lives—our desire for love, happiness, wealth, power, success and status lies a deep unfulfilled longing. Beneath all the myriad hopes and wishes that consume us and are often left partially unsatisfied, lies a more fundamental and ultimately more rewarding search—the quest for our [...]
May
02
2012
Chapter Six: “Meaning, Purpose, and Health” n February 2006, in the Hudson Bay village of Ivujivik, a forty-one-year-old Inuit woman was walking in front of her seven-year-old son when she turned around to see a polar bear getting ready to attack the boy. With no other option in sight, the woman charged the bear and began [...]
May
01
2012
Finally, I had to shut all the windows. The wind was so strong it was blowing books open and it blew a small lamp off one of the tables in my bedroom. All night the wind bammed against the windows. Lying in my bed in the dark, I heard a palm frond tear loose and [...]