In God's Grace

This book is about viewing the great Holy Scriptures through a single filter:  That is, from  the perspective of a purely loving and non-judgmental creator. 

It takes and looks some of the common scriptures and re-interprets them and delves back to original meanings and intentions by looking back at the original sources from which they came:

The purpose that we are all here for is the pursuit of Truth
The challenge to mans pursuit of truth,
For we are at a great crossroad, is this;
Are we willing to ask the great questions?
Are we willing to challenge our most basic beliefs
that we have been telling ourselves fir thousands of years?
And that have led us inevitably to our state of current affairs?

Are we willing to seek, to uncover,
To discover truth?

This then is the path:

If we are to know, to discover
Then we must ask- question everything

And if we hear a voice telling us not to question a thing,
understand that is not god’s voice, but man’s.
As god rejoices in our seeking and will answer us,
For to seek truth, is to seek god.
And is our purpose.

Call to me, and I will answer you,
And will tell you great and unsearchable things
You do not know.
Jeremiah 33:3

For unless we ask
We will never discover our gentle god.
And until we understand our god
to be a purely good, unconditionally compassionate Creator
Man cannot see himself as good- in gods image
 And cannot evolve to the gentle, compassionate being
That is our absolute destiny.

The earth shall be filled with the knowledge
of the benevolent goodness of the lord,
as the waters cover the sea.

Habakkuk 2:14
Welcome to the journey!

Seeking Truth,
The poetic language of God and universe.

Perhaps the best place to start is by defining  the authors values.  He sees himself as one who is a seeker, and sharer of truth:

And on this life-journey to god-truth,
May we keep our minds open enough to be awake and witness
The poetic beauty of the
Language of truth from infinite sources,
When it is whispered in our ears.

As to the other details- he was born in Indianapolis, and raised in Villa Park, in the western suburbs of Chicago.  He graduated with BA and general honors in Zoology from Miami University of Oxford Ohio, and received his DDS and BDS from University of Illinois College of Dentistry in 1980.  He is married and has been a general dentist in Freeport since 1980 and has 2 sons and a daughter.

He and a friend helped put a book together called For the Love of Community-Life Lessons from a Small Town, based on the Chicken Soup concept of uplifting true stories, but on a local basis.  All proceeds from this were given to charities including Headstart and the adult literacy program.

He is an outdoor enthusiast and supporter of being good to the goddess -our mother earth.

He enjoys reading, speaking, bicycling, swimming, running, meditating outdoors, and doing occasional triathlons. He was instrumental in forming the organization that led to the development of the Jane Addams Trail  from Freeport that will end up connecting the Grand Illinois Trail from Chicago, and that goes north into Monroe and Madison, Wisconsin.

He was a winning recipient of the 2001 Quality of Life Awards for Freeport, and is active in many organizations including the Leadership Institute, a Mastermind Group, U.S. Grant Dental Society, NW Illinois YMCA Board, Board of Stephenson County Health Department, Crimestop, Lincoln Douglas Kiwanis, Choral Society as well as church and speaking at local and area groups on topics relating to spirtituatlity.

His goal is to move the world one step closer to releasing man from his/her own restrictive thoughts and understandings of god, freeing the human spirit to its higher potential of unrestricted compassion and moving us all closer to unity and Peace on earth.