Return to Me; God's Heart Cry is God desperately trying to get our attention in today’s broken world to bring us back to Him. To do that, we must start at the beginning. We need to examine our own heart, our own conscience, our own experiences that have made us who we are today so God can use those experiences to bring us back to Him. Return to Me; God's Heart Cry shows us how to use to our experiences to drop the walls and barriers we have created to keep ourselves from being hurt and shows us how to trust the One who has created us.
Return to Me; God’s Heart Cry was written to enable us to become more intimate with God and have a closer relationship with Him. To develop closer bonds and better understand who God is. It is not about a religion, but about a relationship. The only problem is sometimes in order to do that we have to better understand ourselves and what makes us tick before we can fully understand who God is.
Return to Me; God’s Heart Cry is written in a straight forward, everyday conversational style. You don’t have to have a 180 IQ to understand what is written. All that is required of you is to have an open and adventurous mind. You may be thinking, who am I, an unknown author to make such claims? Do I have anything to offer to you? What makes me qualified? My answer to you is I have everything to offer you and nothing that makes me qualified except my love for God and my desire to please Him.
This book is not a “do this or do that and everything will be fine” kind of book. On the contrary, the result of this book is not up to me, but up to you. God wants you to return to Him and this book will help you do that if you are willing. The question is, are you?
Let me tell you a little bit about myself so you can get to know me a little better. In my early years I was a typical kid, got in trouble at school, was a bit rebellious and played the angles if there were any to be played. I had loving parents who worked a lot trying to get ahead. I can remember attending church as a kid with my parents, but I was very small. My parents never forced religion on me and felt it was a personal decision I would make if I wanted. My Grandmother took me to church on Sundays as I got older, but again it was never forced on me.
I spent the next several decades searching for something, but honestly, I really didn’t know what that was. All I knew was that I was not happy with the things I found. I went to hear a speaker who was an “out of the ordinary” preacher. He wasn’t concerned with what you wore, as a matter of fact he wore blue-jeans and a denim shirt which I loved and back then no one did that. He was a down to earth, tell it like it is kind of guy. That night he asked, “if you were to die tonight do you know for certain you would go the heaven?” I realized I did not know, but found out that very night how I could. Now, from that night forward, I can answer that question and say I know for certain if I was to die at any time I would wake up in heaven. Best night ever!
So that’s a little of who I am, now let me tell you how it all got started.
Return to Me; God’s Heart Cry started with a feeling, a feeling that I couldn’t shake, together with a love I couldn’t understand, God’s love. I began reading books on the Holy Spirit. As I read these books over the course of several years, I felt that God was tapping on the door of my heart. Then one Sunday, my pastor preached a sermon, challenging each of us to move out of our individual comfort zone and to be open to where God may lead us.
It was then the thought came to me to write this book because I couldn’t be the only one who was feeling the way I did. All I could think was, ok I’m definitely out of my comfort zone. I secretly wondered, “Why me”? I’m certainly not a saint. I’ve made my share of mistakes. I’m not a theologian or a learned pastor. I have no formal religious education apart from the numerous Bible studies I’ve participated in over the years. I’m not an intellectual or someone with a vast vocabulary. I’m just an average person who loves God. Not so different from you, right?
I wondered in my heart if it was enough to write a book. I was terrified that I wasn’t good enough, but then I remembered Moses, whom God chose to be His mouth piece. Yes, he was terrified and felt unworthy, but God was with him. Then I realized, if I was to do this right, it wasn’t going to be me who was going to write this book. I was the one who would put the words on the paper, but the actual author would be God Himself, providing me with His direction through the Holy Spirit.
This book has taken over three years to write and another year to get the rest of it put together and find its way into print. A lot of thought, effort and prayer have gone into this. It is my hope and desire (please hear my heart) that you will find God in the pages of this book, because it isn’t about me, it’s about you and God.
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