What I believe is each one of us has a soul sent by God with a purpose. When we know what that purpose is, we use the power within to create positive changes in the world we live in. Sometimes our purpose is change the world around us in small ways. We achieve bliss when we accept the limitations of our own power and know that it does not end with us. Our lives are carried on by the lives of everyone we touch.
What I have seen over all these years, is the happiest people know the purpose of their lives. Some just know exactly what they are supposed to do here, no matter what it is and they are happy to do it. I know what my purpose is and I do it gladly even though to most of the people on this earth, they view me as a failure. My success is based on what I know I should do for God and not what some may find as failure.
I live my life according to the power that was, and is granted to me. There is no doubt in my mind about this because of what is stated clearly in the Bible.
12 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
1 Corinthians 12
Knowing my purpose has been my life for 40 years and I am at peace with my place on this earth. I was not chosen for greatness among the authors of the world, or prepared to obtain degrees of note, nor was I prepared to become a priest. I am Greek Orthodox and females are not allowed to become priests. I am however equipped to prove the power within all of us to find peace with our past and know that while we had no power over what was done to us, we have the power to define how we survive it.
That is why I wrote The Lost Son series.
With that in mind, since PTSD is such a hard topic to write about, it is a lot harder to live with if you have no hope of life getting better. These books are written to walk observers through what someone they love could be going through, as well as written for people with PTSD so they can see what they are going through is not a mystery and far from hopeless.
The first chapter of The Lost Son begins with such a level of emotional pain that the main character, Chris, wanted to die. That was the only way he could see his emotional pain end. By the time you read the last of that chapter, you begin to see hope return to Chris, as well as a lot of confusion. He becomes empowered by others who have been in the same dark place he is trying to get out of. They show him a better way into the light of God’s love.
The second chapter, his friends give him more hope and a way to get to it. He also meets two publishers, a brother and sister who arrived in Salem to meet an author they hoped to sign. They were feeling hopeless when they met Chris and remembered him from his days of reporting for a newspaper in LA. They asked Chris to show them around Salem MA before they flew back to LA disappointed the person they thought would help heal the world spiritually, ended up being a fraud.
By the third chapter, they knew the person they hoped to meet in Salem, was Chris. He was the one God wanted to change the world and offer hope to the churchless children of God just like them.
Each chapter brings more healing and a greater understanding of the positive power of purpose we were sent here with.
We are all created with a soul from God and within that soul is what we are intended to do. We are equipped to do it and heal from whatever emotional pain comes with it.
We grieve when we refuse to acknowledge the simple fact that God granted all of us freewill to make our own choices and that includes what others choose to do to us. We end up thinking when something happened, God did it to us, or we were responsible in some way for it. It is human nature but not God’s nature. People decide to help or harm others. When they choose to harm, the angels weep.
God turns around and sends people into our lives to help us. If you have survived what caused PTSD, didn’t you notice that total strangers showed up to help you? They had a choice to respond to God’s call or walk away. God saw you suffering and asked them to help. If they did, they said “yes” to God. If they walked away, they refused to help God. It is on their shoulders to account for it.
The books are filled with suffering and heartache. That is true but that is not the end of the characters’ stories. The end of their stories becomes the never ending stories of the hope they pass on.
If you want to find hope that miracles do still happen because people say YES to God, you will find them in The Lost Son series.
