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    God, the Heart, and the Darkness: And the Correlation Between Them
    God, the Heart, and the Darkness: And the Correlation Between Them
    God, the Heart, and the Darkness: And the Correlation Between Them
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    God, the Heart, and the Darkness: And the Correlation Between Them

    By John Parrilla

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    In our hearts, as Christians, we place the almighty God and his Son, Jesus Christ, in the highest regard possible. We make the connections of history placing God on his throne, and our love for God shines the golden throne to a bright brilliant finish, with beautiful angels serenading him day and night.

    Yet in the real world, as we all live, life-changing moments with God are hardly described or remembered in the such grandeur. They are experienced and remembered in the depth of our deepest pain, in our darkest hours of trial and failure. As it states in the book of Corinthians, God is not of this world, and the fact that he chose to make his Son from usthat Jesus was brought to us so that we could make a simple yet eternal connection between God and his childrentells a mostly unspoken reality about our Creator.

    The truth of Gods love for Adam is in the death of his Son. If you really believe in Jesus Christ, then there is no mistaking Gods love for you or the fact that love is the sole common bond between us and our Higher Power. We are most like God in Love. It is the emotion that God intends for us to understand above all others, so much so that he gave his Son, knowing how we love our children, so that we can make the connection plainly and without fail. If you, as a parent, saw your child in peril and in the dark, at the end of their sanity and crying out for you, where would you be?

    This book is a timeline collection of writings, a visual interpretation of Feeling. A search for God from the depths of a very personal, inherited darkness. It is a faithful expression of the world we live in, in accordance with unseen world of Emotion and Faith.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJan 9, 2014
    ISBN9781490815701
    God, the Heart, and the Darkness: And the Correlation Between Them
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    John Parrilla

    Finding his faith at an early age, John Parrilla of Indianapolis, Indiana, has made it a life’s goal to represent the strong connection between faithful Christians and Jesus Christ. His work comes directly from the core of a hard life lived, and now, at the age of forty and as the father of five children, he walks, soul first, into his chosen path.

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      God, the Heart, and the Darkness - John Parrilla

      THE JUSTIFIED REBEL

      By John Parrilla

      During the upbringing of the Christ, at the young age of only six years, the adolescent son of Joseph and Mary found himself to be quite the adventurer, carefree, outspoken and only a little uncommon. His friends, his playmates, found him to be full of fun and spirit. Their parents, of course, skeptical, thought of him as mystical, a tiny little miracle man sometimes out of control. Either way, he was just a little boy living out his childhood with smiles and laughter and an unknown sense of self. To Mary and Joseph, this was their baby, their child with a smile to rival even the most beautiful notion of a happy heart. They held each other with such a bond of Family. Joseph raised Jesus as his own, yet he knew his path and he knew who Jesus was, and he praised his God every day for such an honor. Mary, who lived a life spent in the realm of angelic conversations, held her baby tightly in her arms every night and kissed his precious little smiles to sleep. They laid to sleep as a family, and they awoke as a family, as it was so intended by their beloved God. The God of Righteous Love. The sole Creator of the bond of Family and the warmth of Home. This was for his Son.

      The village awoke as usual with the slow rise of a sleepy desert sun. The tent folds flung open one by one as the mothers of the village began their daily chores wrapped in blankets to ward off the cold chill of the morning. Buckets were banging and pots were clanging and children were scurrying from tent to tent, gathering their friends with the youthful energy every father wishes they still had. As the women grouped together to make for the Jordan, the children darted back and forth, in-between conversations and tempers. It was a morning just like any other, of course, for anyone except a little bundle of energy with a common name; jesus. Today, life as he knows it thus far, will change dramatically.

      The village wasn’t far off from the river. Maybe a ten-minute walk if you walk with the women. But if you were a boy, you’d be streaking down to the Jordan in an all-out sprint with your friends. On this particular day though, when the gang had reached the river, out of breath and diving in, they were minus one. The elder boys took a look around and they noticed Jesus about a hundred yards back, standing all alone in the bright morning sun, talking to himself. They turned to each other and laughed because Jesus, talking to imaginary things that no one can see but him, was nothing out of the ordinary. So the young men gave each other chase-me shoves and bolted for the water.

      A hundred yards back though, Jesus was living an entirely different scene. Just seconds earlier he was a carefree child with laughter bursting from his lungs, pushing and shoving

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