What if a man can have a near death out-of-body experience of a place most call heaven but be fully alive, not near death at all?
What if an individual began seeing in his mind’s eye his life, flash before his eyes while he was fully awake and going about his daily tasks? Like a deck of cards the visuals and memories tumble toward him with such power and force he has to stop whatever he was doing to tell himself, I was not that awful.
What if that person has dreams as real as any moment in his daily life that tell him he will soon die and no longer be part of the building of life?
That man is me. I have no doubt that I was having mystical and spiritual experiences telling me that my time in this life had come to a close. All roads lead to one final act before my end. Or at least that was what my inner and outer experiences were telling me.
It all changes with an adoption. My wife and I adopted a shelter dog who was dumped at the back door. He was left, emotionally shatters, fearful, and with little trust of people. From all I could see he had been treated badly, some might call is abusive.
A Dog Named Leaf (ISBN-10: 0762781654, ISBN-13: 978-0762781652), a 224-page paperback published by Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot, is available at major online book retailers, in bookstores, and at lyonspress.com. Visit the book’s Facebook page and view photos of Leaf at www.adognamedleaf.com or www.facebook.com/adognamedleaf
What if an individual began seeing in his mind’s eye his life, flash before his eyes while he was fully awake and going about his daily tasks? Like a deck of cards the visuals and memories tumble toward him with such power and force he has to stop whatever he was doing to tell himself, I was not that awful.
What if that person has dreams as real as any moment in his daily life that tell him he will soon die and no longer be part of the building of life?
That man is me. I have no doubt that I was having mystical and spiritual experiences telling me that my time in this life had come to a close. All roads lead to one final act before my end. Or at least that was what my inner and outer experiences were telling me.
It all changes with an adoption. My wife and I adopted a shelter dog who was dumped at the back door. He was left, emotionally shatters, fearful, and with little trust of people. From all I could see he had been treated badly, some might call is abusive.
A Dog Named Leaf (ISBN-10: 0762781654, ISBN-13: 978-0762781652), a 224-page paperback published by Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot, is available at major online book retailers, in bookstores, and at lyonspress.com. Visit the book’s Facebook page and view photos of Leaf at www.adognamedleaf.com or www.facebook.com/adognamedleaf