A Farewell to Myself

Rev. Jones has spun a personal tale of life and death, of faith and unbelief and of forgiveness through the cross of Christ. He finds the gap between man and God and closes it with raw humor and honesty as he describes what it is to look oneself in the heart and say, "Farewell." "The Lord said, as I knelt in the stream above a waterfall, "I think you'll find many resemblances, Brother Stephen." He meant resemblances between me and the social lepers who were on the banks of the stream below. Here in the jail this morning I discover that one resemblance is wanting to avoid the painful, self-revealing truths of the Bible." "I was born again-even in the midst of all the muddle. Already, however, as we stood before the falls, they seemed to prophesy a change that would one day become the newer conversion of my mind and my life. Such are the ways, in God's way of doing things, that the future returns to the past and then goes on to clear up, and even change, the present. In memory, now, straight lines and order and syllogisms create only confusion. Faith-no more rational than it is visible or chronological-increasingly, tells the tale."

Author: Stephen Clement Jones
Publisher: Oakwood Covenant Press
Published: 11/09/2013
Pages: 346
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780615812793

About the Author
Dr. Stephen Jones taught psychology and sociology for many years and published enough research articles and thought pieces to gain and keep a tenured position at Cornell University. He took early retirement in 1980 and began work as a local handyman and house painter. During this second career, he founded a Christian church, now with four elders, and began pursuing the hobbies of sculpting and personal writing.

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