There is a longing for God in everyone. In our joys, fears, losses and hopes, our lives intersect with the One who created us and loves us. But do we always recognize that Divine Presence? The 46 short essays in this book encourage readers, whatever their beliefs, to consider the struggles of life from a spiritual perspective. First published as faith and values columns in newspapers nationwide, these essays invite the reader to ponder simple and profound issues in fresh and challenging ways. Though shaped by a Christian view of life, each essay can stimulate new thought about oneself no...

A young couple is recruited into a secret space program & black ops team called The Collectors that is being run by benevolent aliens to save mankind from itself. The Collectors program has been a long running secret space program, with ultimate goals and plans scheduled to unfold many years in the future. Certain cataclysmic events unfold that force the plan to be accelerated. The beautiful part of this story is that the entire plan does not rest on the shoulders of mankind, but on its benevolent friends, an advanced race of aliens with ties to humanity's long distant past. They are the...