ABOUT THE BOOK

A couple of things I need to clarify about the book:

One. Not every weird thing that happened to me between 2005 and 2012 is included in the final manuscript. Not even the most interesting. Maybe not even the most important. The experiences I chose to include were chosen to illustrate the transformative turns my mind and heart were making.

Sometimes God showed me or told me something several months before or after the change in my comprehension of the new reality. My transformation was definitely not linear. If I wrote the scenes in linear order, the stories would entangle.

Most of the ‘weird God” encounters, approximately 3/4, are still in file folders. I plan to compile them for the sake of future generations (or my fantasy of future generations).

Two. A divorce happened during the seven-year time span of this memoir, but the story is not about the divorce. The story is about my growing awareness of the reality of a spiritual world while living out the ordeal. Whatever sort of emotional torment, compassion, and spiritual wisdom accompanied me. However, I didn’t know that until certain experiences, encounters, convinced me. More accurately, convinced my heart and my brain.

My brain lives a very active life. It’s trained me to respond to its directions. After all, what else can I trust if not my best thoughts? Personality assessments affirmed that trust. Enneagram Five reveals my natural tendency to solve questions with an assemblage of books. The tougher the issue, the more books to invest in. At work, Strengths-finder assessments described me well with my top five: Ideation, Input, Strategic, Learner, and Intellection.

Both of these diagnostic tools basically revealed that I lived in my head. I solved problems with information – proven and published information. More information from more sources even better. Critical thinking was my dominant pastime, the mental motor that hummed in the background of every day and night.

Spirit took some drastic action to get me to recognize the other invisible reality.