Excerpts from Finding Heaven In The Dark – HEALING IS AN INSIDE JOB

Published February 16, 2020

Originally published Nov. 2017

The meditation-observation exercise was a nonhabit-forming
practice. That was the bad news. One must commit to practice it
each …

Published January 26, 2020

CHAPTER 2 DARK JOURNEY page 31

Sunday school was another occasion for me to be surrounded by
strangers. We were still clean from …

Published January 2, 2020

CHAPTER 9
AN INVITATION TO OPENNESS page 200

“You continue to live your life with that attitude and you’ll be
fine, William,” McCue …

Published December 1, 2019

CHAPTER 1
HARD TIME page 16
January 1967
I was home for Christmas, and I watched the new year of 1967
begin with a …

Published November 3, 2019

FINDING HEAVEN IN THE DARK
CHAPTER 9
AN INVITATION TO OPENNESS page 194
During the summer of 1968, almost everything I did was golden.

Published October 21, 2019

FINDING HEAVEN IN THE DARK Chapter 1 HARD TIME
Page 13
The good feeling of acceptance didn’t last long. The US Marine
Corps—like other …

Published October 15, 2019

CHAPTER 9
AN INVITATION TO OPENNESS
Page 193
The antiwar voices forced the president to decide not to run for
reelection. The earth was …

Published October 7, 2019

FINDING HEAVEN IN THE DARK
CHAPTER 1
HARD TIME
I kept jogging along to my own rhythm, just slightly off the pace.
Some had …

Published September 29, 2019

Patience impacted my life in
such a positive way that …

Published September 22, 2019

Summer 1970
The handcuffs locked around my wrists. I had been tried, convicted, and sentenced.
I was twenty-one-years old, as I stood shackled and …