I would like to welcome Mike Kearby to The Avid Reader today. Thanks for stopping by Mike. Please be sure and check out Mike's short story When God Spoke book #4 in the Fone-Stories™. Check out my review and an excerpt of When God Spoke.
Title: When God Spoke
Author: Mike Kearby
Series: Fone-Stories™ #4
Publisher: Self
Genre: Fantasy
Format: Ebook
Words: 2500
PURCHASE
When God Spoke
BOOK DESCRIPTION
When God Spoke
A Story Bound to be the Subject of Much Disagreement & Debate. When God Spoke is a Controversial Look at Religion Expressed by A Terminal Cancer Patient.
EXCERPT
When God Spoke
It was in the autumn of my life, when that dreaded prognosis arrived. Unheralded and harsh, but not unexpected, the reality of such a forecast was this: anyone who dared step on the stage knew that one day the curtain would come down. Unlike others given the directive, however, I refused to follow prescribed protocol for such revelations, those of shock, anger, or depression, for I never doubted the prediction of my course, I simply chose instead to proceed with great rapidity straight to the interminable question of, "Why me?"
Habitually disposed to disobedience (I confess here my one great flaw) I remained headstrong and demanding, and so, ever resolute, I refused to exit until a suitable answer was presented as to the reason.
And there is where my story actually has its genesis, for soon after my unreasonable rigidity prevailed, a voice did descend to that stage.
Then, over the course of three days I was provided with answers that my soul once thought of as incapable of occurrence.
Be assured that the voice was not without its own problems. It presented a conundrum in that it sounded much like and yet so unlike my own distinctive quality of tone and pitch. A baffling problem to be sure, yet one I resolved internally as the voice certainly had sufficient and affirmative counterclaims to my willful opposition of departing the stage.
So, what all of the above comes down to-is this: What you are about to read is neither synthetic nor spurious, but most avowedly true.
MY REVIEW
When God Spoke
The following review is my opinion and not a paid review. I was given a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.
When God Spoke is about a man with terminal cancer. Who sits out on the porch during the day and talks to God. When he is speaking with God he sees him sitting in the chair beside him. The man likes sitting out in the sun and feeling it upon his face. He loves how the sun feels beaming down on him. He is filled with peace and joy during his time in the sun talking with God.
The patient ask God in an around about way if he is real or not. He also ask him questions about religion like which one is the right one or who is right? Is any of them the right way to believe? God always answers him in round about ways so that the patient has to actually make his own decisions of what is right and what is wrong.
I think God is trying to tell him it doesn't matter what you believe or what anyone else believes. What matters is how you live your life doing what you know to be right. Treat all life as if it sacred. Love each and every human being the same no matter where they come from or what they believe. Each person has the right to believe how they want as long as they love and treat everyone the same. I also think he is telling him that he is smarter than some give him credit for. Like why would he let an innocent child that did something that is consider wrong when they had no control over what happened die without him. But then turn around and let that innocent child's murderer be with him? If he had all this control over what humans did then why would he not stop that poor innocent child from being hurt and killed?
Every day that this guy spent sitting in the sun he thought he was having a conversation with God when in reality he was talking to himself. As God told him man created God in his image it wasn't God created man in his image. Man needed this image of himself that he called God so that he could look inside himself and believe that he was pure and innocent. Man needed this image of himself to help him do what he thought was the right thing to do. To help him live a better life and help him to be a better person. Without any guidelines or any rules to follow then he believed that he would be capable of doing evil things. If God created man and not the other way around why is man not dying to be with him?
- About the Author
From Wikipedia: Mike Kearby (born 1952) is an award-winning American novelist and inventor. Since 2005, Kearby has published ten novels, one graphic novel, and written two screenplays: (2011) Boston Nightly, with fellow writer Paul Bright and (2012) The Devouring. Boston Nightly is scheduled for filming in Dallas in the spring of 2013.
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