Journey Searching for Peace Author:Various Does your life ever feel to you like an endless cycle without meaning? Have you ever felt a curse of loneliness, depression, fear that makes it difficult to keep going? Do you feel abandoned, forgotten, rejected? Do you have the feeling that you are somehow worthless, different, on the outside looking in? Do you just want the hurt to go away? Wo... more »uld you describe yourself as emotionally and spiritually bankrupt? This book will give you the chance to listen to the voices of some of your neighbors in Palestine, Texas who have experienced many of these same feelings. There s a young man with a hard heart whose nightmares become only too real as he finds himself imprisoned in the state penitentiary with the worst criminals in Texas. A soldier sits in his tent in Vietnam, struggling with fear, loneliness and confusion. A young woman struggles to drag herself out of bed, devastated by betrayal and unable to shake the feeling of being different. A big strong policeman loses his wife, his home and his job overnight, and finds himself crying to be saved from this hell of a life that he had built for himself. But each of the true stories in this book also contains the elements of healing from the past and hope for the future, because these storytellers have found a way out of their depression, a sense of value and worth that has chased away their nightmares and made life worth living again. You re invited to find out for yourself what this is all about. Follow these stories of seven of your neighbors as they move forward from despair and loneliness to hope and fulfillment, and find value and purpose -- and plenty of reason to keep going!« less