Moving Forward in Reverse

About the Book

Inside this book, you will find more than just poetry. You will find another point of view from my own perspective of life and death. As I have heard before, death is only the beginning. So why do people fear death? Are we that afraid to trust in Jesus, or is it that we don’t like new beginnings? Writing this book is my testament of the faith that I have in God. Jesus still wants me to live to tell my whole story. He is continuing to live within me, and I will never give up on my life until He wants me to come home and complete the final chapter of my living on this earth. My reward is in heaven, not here on earth.

About the Author

As a child of God, I was first introduced into the church at the young age of four years old. I was asked to go to church by my granny, who at the time was watching me because my parents were out of town. She told me that I needed to hear what God and Jesus were going to tell me within my heart. But at that time, I didn’t even know what my heart was, much less who she was talking about or who these people were who were going to talk to me. Being the adventurist soul that I was, off I went to church with my granny. I wasn’t scared because I had my granny beside me, though I was very eager to see why she wanted me to go with her. I also wanted to meet these people just to find out what they had to say to Granny and me. Little did I know at the time that these people that she had mentioned to me—God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit—were not the people who would be speaking to me directly in person, but indirectly. However, a really nice pastor read aloud from a book called the Holy Bible. As the years passed, I would attend a lot of different churches and go to small Bible studies from time to time whenever I could. The more I became interested in God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, the more I wanted to get to know exactly what it was the Bible was saying to me. At twelve years old, I came very close to death after I hit a tree while sledding. At the ages of twenty-six and twenty-seven, I had two more near-death experiences from a rare blood-clotting disorder called factor Leiden V deficiency. From those three different times of being on the edge of this life, I have come to know that there is a God. He has a Son, and His name is Jesus Christ. There is a Holy Spirit. Now at the age of forty-four, I want to let everyone know that I alive because of my faith in God, and my life will forever belong to Jesus. God Bless all of us. Amen.