"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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