God's Creation
My New Beginning
Hello everyone. I am Born By Faith, and this is my debut on my first website. It has been an extremely long road to my new beginning, but I seem to have made it sorta safely, all things considering.
I am excited to begin my new journey with you here, on this site, so let me tell you what this space is all about. I’ve wanted to write a book for many years, a specific book on a specific topic, and even started one way back when, but life always kept getting in the way. By way of circumstances out of my control, I finally got the chance to retire and that set the stage for this opportunity. This space is where I will finally write my book. I started this book when I was much, much younger and living in another world. I’m 60 years old now, and I have a great story to tell. This space is where I will finish the book I started so many years ago. It is about God, His Creation, and me. From the Atom to the Milky Way, from a forest to the oceans, I can literally see that God is both a great and powerful Creator, but if I look inside I see that God’s greatest creation is my soul. I don’t mean the soul He gave me at conception, that is His easy work. I mean the soul He created in me after I was Born By Faith. God takes a dirty, broken soul, full of pain, fear, and hate, and creates a new one in His image, full of love, forgiveness, and mercy. God wins His greatest battles in my heart and mind.
I will write this book in real time, so it won’t be in order. I’ll shift things around, change something here and there, add footnotes and tags, and even stop mid-sentence... you get the picture. This website is basically just a blank sheet of paper, so you will also see it grow into itself. Furthermore, I’ve added a comments section and I encourage your engagement, but please keep it clean and on topic because what you won’t find here is religion or doctrinal debates. I am very rooted in my doctrinal beliefs. You can see by the menu where my heart is, but I will add my credentials early on.
I really do appreciate everyone who will check in on me to see the progress. I promise to write honestly, accurately, and in the friendliest of ways. Again, I have a story to tell, and I hope you will enjoy it.
A Purpose Driven Mind
A Letter From The Author
As, I assume, most kids are, I was in my childhood a great explorer, because I was drawn to those places and things that took me outside of myself and my little world. I vaguely remember being fascinated by the vastness overhead and the tiny, shiny things in the night sky. I covered the moon with my tiny hand, counted stars, stared blindly into the sun,
Then, in my high school days, I started a very unhealthy heroin habit that lasted over 40 years. The drugs were very hard on my mind so most of those teenage years are forgotten. But looking back, I can see that my interest in creation was not lost, even if it was misdirected. My favorite subject in school was science, because I loved learning about the big bang theory, the planets in our solar system, how our living planet works, and about evolution. Even though my mind was pleasantly distorted, I still loved that mysterious place looming overhead, and Battle Star Galactica, Star Wars, and Star Trek were my rides into that world. But more than anything, I loved nature, the ocean and all the living things in them, and I was fascinated by forces of nature like lightning, fire, and weather.
and traveled to distant galaxies behind my eyelids (which I still do today, at 60). Though the sky was physically out of reach, it remained an open and welcoming playground for my imagination, and I like to remember myself playing there often. ¹
