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From Back Cover of Journer
a contemporary spirit journey
In this little novel, Peter takes his family on a global odyssey as they search for the meaning of faith and vocation. Layer after layer of his inherited notions about life, religion, and culture fall away on his spirit quest that leads him from a rural American background to the city, to the ghetto, to third world villages, and back again.
Life-changing events guide him on the way. Everyone can identify with Peter for everyone is on the journey.
Fashioned after Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, a lean spiritual journey, Journer focuses on the ever-present spirit of grace and oneness as experienced in this very real world. Journer promises us courage to journey far and deep.
Expanded Quote from Journer
. . . a contemporary spirit journey novel
“Enough of me and mine and ours. Evolution does not primarily have to do with personal human development but with the universal journey of all, in which all are interrelated and unfolding out of the past into the future, eternally at one with spirit.
“You want fulfillment. Oneness is it. You want significance. Union is it. You want vocation. Unity is it. That which unites is of the spirit; that which divides, not. All we need to know is 'We are one in spirit!' So simple. Everyone has sensed this truth. Isn’t it time your religion and mine radically and sacrificially embody [it]?” ~Peter, speaking to interfaith conference in San Francisco, in the novel called Journer. . . he felt called to . . . witness to his journey with spirit, which was what his whole life was about: following the unfolding journey with spirit and watching his life evolve out of a narrow creed of belief into a grand cosmology about the meaning of creation and his existence in it.
He was absolutely sure – if one can be absolutely sure about anything – that at the heart of the journey was the life-changing spirit that gives grace, through faith, for works of love; that the context for the journey was the good creation, the sacred journey of the whole universe; and that the vocation of the journey was to care for the spirits of all, being about the great work of the human venture on behalf of the earth venture.As he recalled the hundreds of events of his life, Peter realized how he was being forcefully changed from his many expressions of group-centeredness, bordering on “bigotry,” that is, if one used the definition of being strongly partial to one’s group or circle – or even one’s culture – and intolerant of those outside. Peter knew that his life-events were forcing him to deal with his major bigotries: being white, American, middle class, educated, clergy, Judeo-Christian, human, and liberal. How he had struggled to turn away from his bigotries was helping him frame the major sections of his story. But more, transcending his bigotries was reminding him of the oneness of creation, that all are one and equal in their diversity. His experiences were relentless in guiding him to the eternal fact of oneness, over and over, deeper and deeper. Also, as he reflected on his myriad life-events, he realized he was writing a psalm of thanksgiving, for he really knew that he had experienced grace upon grace . . . and, therefore, he could give thanks for his whole journey. Now Peter’s passion was to tell readers that creation is full of grace and that their lives are guided by spirit.He was writing that all are journers together on the grace-filled spirit journey. . . .Peter – aka “Journer”: “We humans are really beginning to care for creation again – as did our ancestors – even as you trees and eagles and aborigines have never stopped doing. All of us are about one thing. . . . Only within the common destiny of creation are we unique beings, but each with the same purpose. Our history is the history of creation. Our future is the future of creation. We are one.”
