<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><u>Shattered People Series</u>:&nbsp;<em>Journeys to Joy</em> </strong>follows the first two years of 16&nbsp;of a journey to find and know&nbsp;the truth about God's love directly from God Himself. Learn how these people break free&nbsp;of the abusive control maintained over their lives and memories by people and priests&nbsp;who came in the name of God and claim to be acting under His authority. These&nbsp;remarkable true stories follow an individual with Multiple Personality Disorder a survival&nbsp;mechanism initiated by a lifetime of abuse struggling to find spiritual healing and&nbsp;'wholeness' through the unconditional love of Jesus.</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Recorded in the words of those persons' experiencing them some of life's hardest&nbsp;issues are investigated illustrated and documented in these books; spiritual warfare&nbsp;clergy abuse Satanic Ritual Abuse evil in everyday life spiritual healing and the reality&nbsp;of the power of the Kingdom of God at work in and around us. As the author of this series&nbsp;and a pastor &amp; counselor specializing in spiritual issues I include a running commentary&nbsp;of their journey as a clinical study of their journey with their first counselor and then with&nbsp;me. I include definitions of terms used for understanding the care given then and what we&nbsp;learn together about God's love healing plans and will for all of His children. How God&nbsp;chooses to reveal His love and power while confronting evil in the midst of their pain and&nbsp;suffering through forgiveness mercy and truth will challenge your concepts of Him and&nbsp;His love.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Our purposes together in these books is not to focus on understanding their&nbsp;experiences my understanding of them or their disorders but to help all those going&nbsp;through similar struggles in search of hope and healing to see and hear how Jesus&nbsp;responds to their needs and why... to know that God in Jesus Christ is trustworthy and&nbsp;true. While this book covers 2 years the second book <strong><u>Journeys to Love</u></strong> covers the next&nbsp;4 years. I am updating the information shared in the prefaces and prologues of both books&nbsp;to include new understanding of these issues&nbsp;learned over the coming years in <strong>Books 3 and 4 </strong>due out in 2022-23? in my&nbsp;counseling relationships with hundreds of clients/ friends and their journeys to understand&nbsp;who God is and why He loves them...and why they can trust Him. Our hope with the <strong>Shattered People Series</strong> is that our readers will have more opportunities to know and trust our&nbsp;Heavenly Father's ongoing and unconditional love for them.</p>