The First Peace; My Search for the Better Angels is a spiritual,
intellectual, emotional, and perhaps educational memoir that spans
fifty-plus years, eleven states, three countries, military and
seminary, birth and death, marriage and divorce, three Christian
denominations, and a monastery. This memoir is a journey through
faith and knowledge, hope and reality, love and experience. The
author attempts to reconcile what he has been taught, what he
believes, what he experiences, what he knows, what he wants, and
what he perceives. His unacknowledged question: What do we do when
we evolve beyond the faith of our fathers (and/or mothers)? After a
life of seeking to understand through the lens of Christianity (and
other religions), the author comes to understand that religious
beliefs and dogma may become a barrier to faith and understanding.
The author learns that liberty entails responsibility, faith
requires self-reliance, and enlightenment is found within. Liberty
and freedom entail responsibility, responsibly that no other person
or institution can assume for use. We remain responsible for our
actions and inactions. No person, government, or religious
institution can assume or remove our responsibility for our
actions, for our lives. The First Peace; My Search for the Better
Angels is an attempt to weave a tapestry of stories, ideas and
ideals, ethics, experiences, and expressions - with the goal (and
hope) to entertain, inform, educate, persuade, stimulate, and even
challenge. Perhaps The First Peace; My Search for the Better Angels
will remind you of your own experiences, thoughts, and feelings
that provide some measure of contentment, but also some measure of
challenge, even conflict. The silence beyond those reminders is
where we find the first peace and where we are at liberty to be
real and where the better angels of our nature touch us.
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