Mike Sullivan

Papa Mike's Long Journey Home

Faith, Family and the Marine Corps

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sometimes it takes a lifetime to discover the importance of your faith. It can be a long and difficult journey for many. Nothing is more important than your faith. Believing that there is a God who loves you and whose mercy will save you in the end is essential to achieving your inner peace and happiness. Both faith and wisdom evolve. Our concept of God as children is quite different from the one that we embrace during young adulthood, let alone old age. Wisdom is achieved through the school of hard knocks and in making all the right and wrong decisions in your life. You get knocked down a lot, but you stay in the game. Something bigger than you pulls you through the tough times. I could not have written this narrative thirty years ago, let alone five years ago. Most of my life has been taken up with work and raising my family. My life has been filled with many blessings, as well as many failures and personal setbacks. I have dealt with tragedy, as well as joy. I have let people down and once in a while lifted someone up. Faith is a gift from God. Faith is trust. Seeing something in our physical world makes it a reality to us. Not seeing something, but believing it still exists, requires trust. A lot of people thrive on their self-reliance. They do things their way. That's fine. But when the stiff winds come into our lives to try to blow us off course, we need to be able to stay on our feet. The inner strength we need to survive these storms comes from our faith.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gatekeeper Press
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 194g
• ISBN-13: 9781662925214
• ISBN-10: 1662925212
• Artikelnr.: 63707593

Autorenporträt

Mike is a retired Marine Corps officer, teacher and author of five previous books. He has written this book for his eight grandchildren who are now embarking on their own spiritual journeys. Mike is a lifelong surfer. In his words, "Life is like surfing. You never look back and always look forward to the next challenging wave." Just like surfing a wave, our faith gives us the courage to move forward, make spiritual progress and persevere against all life throws at us. Faith and family are the pillars we need to lean on when the seas get rough in our lives.