On the Great Reunion Ingathering Journey (ePub)

I grew up in New Jersey and left to attend college in Syracuse, New York. During college I took the opportunity to study a year in Greece. After college I entered the US Navy and served for fifteen years, being stationed in places such as Japan, Italy and Turkey. Now widowed with one son and living in Ohio.


I have found that I rarely follow the usual route in many things. My journey of faith did not follow the common paths that we hear most often. I grew up in a family that felt organized religious expression many times created unnecessary blocks in life that were not good and often times were discriminatory. So we, as a family, avoided church going as a rule.


However there was something that piqued my curiosity enough for me to investigate the origin of things on my own. Having a science background, I became curious to explore how the world came to be and what it that informed the order that was evident throughout nature. From the smallest things to the vastness of the universe, there is an order that defies the probability of random chance. My loves of reading and history set me on a journey of questioning and searching the cycles that seemed to be prevalent in civilizations. What caused most to rise and fall then in some cases to disappear from history. There was one that seemed to defy this pattern. The history book that told of this group also mentioned several others that many thought as fictional until later archeology found them. I explored as many avenues as I possibly could to explain patterns and the origins.


When I could no longer argue that there was not an overarching intelligence at work in the universe, I started looking into the various expressions of belief in this intelligence that exist. I explored many options atheist, agnostic, animist, and several differing theistic belief systems. I was looking for a consistency through the ages and coherency of message throughout. I even looked at the possibility that this

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