Lost Times, Times Lost

Thisnovel follows the unlikely, interconnected, misadventures of a coupleof newspaper reporters, a truck driver, a runaway scientist, twomissing children on the run, and a mysterious corrupt globalenterprise headed by one individual.Imbedded in the plot is onemore of the myriad of attempts to examine the age-old adage involvingthe two provincial schools of thought concerning the origin of life.The first, of life perhaps being the sum of infinite coincidences;the other, of it being the result of an intelligence. This book takesthe position of the latter.In taking that position,the author declares the source of the intelligence is identified inscrolls stored in various places of antiquity in the Middle Easternpart of the world. These writings became the basis for ourJudeo-Christian Bible.The Christian part of thatBible is identified as the New Testament, which is based on thebirth, life, death, resurrection, and purpose of Jesus of Nazareth,who is declared as and who we believe is the Christ God sent to giveHis life for the salvation of mankind. The book attempts to usemodern-day events as examples of Jesuss response to the Samaritanwoman at Jacobs well, in John 4, where He addresses thephysicality of His Father when He said, God is a Spirit.The leaf that travels andis captured by a squirrel in the opening chapter is one of theauthors examples of how God uses what may appear to us as acoincidence to carry out His will.The ensemble of charactersfind their lives turned upside-down by a cutting-edge invention thathas the power to upend the entire power structure of modern-dayeconomics, closing the wealth gap and rewriting the dynamics ofmarket control. Through it all, they will be challenged to see whatis unseen and to be heroes in the truest sense of the wordthat is,Good Samaritans.The novel ultimately makesa profound statement identifying whats wrong with the humanspecies through the voices of a visionary group and a wise Americanpresident.I hope you will enjoy, beuplifted, and maybe even be blessed by the read.