The first book in a three-part series, this study will help answer questions such as: Can joy and sorrow coexist? What is the meaning of life? Is there a guidebook for the journey this side of Heaven? Rich foundational core principles are covered in this study. Biblical topics include: Grief and loss The promise of Heaven Trials and pain Forgiveness Sexual purity and principles of waiting Tithe and God's providence About the book: Have you ever inadvertently stepped outside yourself, even if for a moment, silenced in awe? In that quiet instance, when taken aback by the brief, yet profound awakening, your confidence in forever soared. Brimming with the foreknowledge of more what is yet to come. In these pinhole experiences of life, the simultaneous presence of both flesh and spirit become temporarily understood. The coexistence of the supernatural, amidst the ordinary, natural life around you is illuminated. As if provisionally removed from the body, the heightened sense of spirit is palpable. In the pages that follow, the Bible will come alive. What once may have seemed out of reach, will easily be within your grasp. Technicolor radiance will replace the once monochrome drudgery of reading Scripture. These chapters will draw you deeper and more ravenous for the Word. The six short-story studies will lead you to mountaintop summits and accompany you amidst the deepest of sorrowful valleys. Your path will be illustrated with the vastness of God's beauty in the coexistence of grief and elation, sorrow, and joy. Together we voyage familiar territory, grounds upon all can relate. The application of scripture ignites a thirst for more. The stories reveal God's radical truth juxtaposed with the gentle simplicity they are rooted in. And as you read, He, being the good, good Father, will generously deliver His peace, His hope, and His joy in abundance. Unexplainable, the Bible as applied to two ordinary lives.