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    Valley to Mountain Top
    Valley to Mountain Top
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    Valley to Mountain Top

    By Dr. Al Jones

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    You have probably noticed that life is an unavoidable journey with its smooth and rugged pathway breaking into a number of avenues. How does one make the choices that result in happiness and the fulfilment of ones potential? Find out in Valley To Mountain Top.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMar 18, 2014
    ISBN9781491864722
    Valley to Mountain Top
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    Dr. Al Jones

    Dr. Jones is a former teacher, college tutor, Test Development Officer with the Caribbean Examinations Council and a consultant in Education. She has written a Spanish textbook for Caribbean students, professional manuals, research articles (one of which was published in the British Journal of Educational Research) and an inspirational book, Reaching For Miracles. For the past thirteen years she has written Bible Study Guides and led Bible Study groups.

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      Valley to Mountain Top - Dr. Al Jones

      © 2014 Dr. Al Jones. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 03/17/2014

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-6473-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-6472-2 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014902904

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Here You Are

      Where You Are

      Can You Escape?

      The Quest

      What Is Your Task?

      Accepting The Gift

      Setting Out

      A New Beginning

      Is There A Model?

      In Whom Are You Trusting?

      On Being Practical

      Travelling With Burdens?

      Continual Shedding of Overload

      Clothing For The Journey

      Your New Conceptualization

      The Legacy

      Walking The Walk

      Greater Love

      The Good Walk

      Moulding The Image

      When Trouble Comes

      Deep In the Valley

      How Long?

      Freedom

      Vision From The Mountain Top

      Breathe On Me

      Epilogue

      PREFACE

      I had no plans to write this book. After my first book Reaching For Miracles was published, I thought it would be even more rewarding to write another inspired book, but I had no idea what it would be about! Anyway I simply told God that I was available to write if He wanted me to.

      That was the end of those thoughts. In the months that followed, I continued putting on the finishing touches to a Spanish textbook for students. My thoughts were also on my first novel which I had started much earlier and was eager to continue after completion of the Spanish text.

      Months later, a close relative was experiencing a serious problem. It was an extremely stressful situation and I shared some of the pain. I had to do something! So I decided I would spend a day in prayer and meditation for a solution to the problem.

      About half an hour after I started, when my focus had excluded everything but the problem and God, I became aware of a voice within me which clearly said the following:

      "Do not focus on the problem. It is already solved. Instead, you must focus on writing a book entitled Valley To Mountain Top."

      I was overwhelmed! Not only was I told to write a book, I was given the title! God was actually communicating directly with me! The actuality of all this was almost incredible!

      I obeyed. I continued the day as I had planned, but with a changed focus – a book rather than a problem.

      At the end of the day, I was even more overwhelmed. A title and a command to write! But that hardly constitutes a book! Anyway with that much direction, I took the Bible and started to make notes. I continued to do so day after day.

      After I had written almost thirty pages of notes and I felt that I had read all the passages that I was led to read, I was still not very clear in what direction I should be heading, and I was uncertain about the contents of the book. However, with my notes and the title, and the fact that the original problem was solved, I started confidently to write…………………………………

      HERE YOU ARE

      "Man’s main aim in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is, the most important product of his effort is his own personality." Erich Fromm

      Here you are! And you had absolutely nothing to do with it. The decision was made by others for each one of us. Now we are part of the whole scheme of things, part of the universe, so inextricably bound to Nature, to the pulse of Life that we cannot successfully dissociate ourselves from it, until it decides to release us. But often we do not even want to be released; we tacitly welcome the participation and the challenge of life.

      So you have found yourself with a responsibility - that of living, of encountering whatever life decides to place in your path, and you have quickly discovered that almost everything is more complex than simple. You were, consciously or unconsciously, certain of one thing, though – You had to have a go at it.

      Instinctively we took a quick glance at ourselves and a brief look at the context in which we have been placed - at the world. We had to acknowledge that instead of chaos, there is Universal Order and some social order. Therefore there are rules governing Nature as well as our own behaviours. Life is so complicated that it takes a lifetime to understand, and we as individuals, are mixed up in the complications. So the quick glances and brief looks are just the first steps to engaging in the process of comprehending our inner selves in relation to the deeper meaning of Life – that enormous puzzle in which we are the pieces. Without choosing to be, we are interrelated with everything and everyone else.

      Such is the human condition. In the face of it, we sometimes feel more helpless than empowered. We are not initially equipped with understandings, answers and solutions. We have not been prepared. In a

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