Each and very one of us has an inner personal power and our way of using it determines the quality of our lives.
Some of us decide also to add a power to our lives that is beyond our own until we take steps to welcome it.
In my case, during the 93 years since my mother Thelma first took me to Sunday School in Linville, I have added to my life the powerful influence of JESUS THE MAN, not the Christ whom Churches created. I am certain that my decision to do this has added a significant dimension to my being.
THE MAN is indeed the cornerstone of my life and he has inspired me always to reach for the stars, while empowering me to pick myself up and start again whenever I fall or fail (which is often).
Nevertheless, I am pleased also to acknowledge that I have valued friends whose lives are successfully based on a cornerstone of influence that is different to mine – Confucius, Mahommed, Gandhi etc. They have my huge respect, except for those who worship a football team or a pop star.
So it was that, a couple of years ago, I decided to write 2 books that would convey, in secular language, my search for the ground of my being. I must confess that my decision was more to convince myself, rather than you, that I have not been wasting my time.
The first is a novel called A BEAUTIFUL SUNSET.
It tells the fictional story of a famous Anglican Priest who is stricken with terminal cancer and decides to depart via Voluntary Assisted Dying, causing huge controversy by doing so. He decides to make his last 3 months the most caring, compassionate and happy of his life. On the day before he dies he invites his friends to drop by for a drink, creating a delightfully pleasant final curtain call. I was not feeling morbid when I wrote this book. I just wanted to convince myself that death is a wonderfully inevitable final curtain call that I will enjoy and that I do not expect or want or will accept any eternal rewards.
The second was published only a few months ago and is called WALKING WITH THE MAN, BUT NOT TO CHURCH.
I wrote it in non religious language in the hope that my readers will be the 90% of people who do not go to Church and never will. It tells a personal story of my journey of faith from being a fundamentalist to becoming an open minded progressive during which I changed from being a Christian to become a WORKING PARTNER OF JESUS THE MAN who actively walks with him to create a better world. It contains many thoughtful pages about great people who have influenced my life . My hope is that many working partners will join with me in fostering Australia as a model nation that finds, understands and actively accepts the ground of its being as a caring and sharing society.
I now have a special offer for you personally that is a much better alternative than buying these two books via an order on my website or via my publishers or an online bookseller.
To take it up, I invite you to
*Send me a direct message on X (twitter) or Bluesky.
*Do the same on Facebook via Messenger.
*Go to my website https://everaldcompton.com. Do not place an order, but send me a personal message on the link that says Contact Me.
*If you already have my mobile phone number or email, please use it to make contact.
No matter which method you use, all that I need is your postal address, phone & email. I will send you details on how to pay me online and will sign each book, adding a personal greeting as well.
The special cost, not available elsewhere, which is inclusive of both books and postage, is a total of 50 dollars.
Enjoy reading them both. I feel confident you will find it to be money well spent.
Then send me a message to arrange a 5 minute phone chat so we can learn from your each other of our experience in searching and finding the ground of our being.
Yours on a meaningful journey.
Everald
