Book 1 the Romance

David Pedri

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The Romance is Book I of a trilogy, The Indivisible Light, in which this Christian author explains certain mysteries of Scripture, of life and love, of existence and eternity. David, the heroic patriot who defends America against invasion by one million men in Book II, meets the love of his life in The Romance. He fights wild animals, murderous conspirators, and the strong will of a beautiful woman and her father in order to win Angela's affections. The treasure he pursues in the rugged, grizzly infested mountains of Wyoming is a king's ransom that invites the prospector buried in everyone's heart to adventure. Packed tight with raw action, sizzling romance and profound wisdom, the reader is fully engaged. The author conveys truths which define the reality we all live in and split the human race into two opposing factions. Readers who follow David and Angela to "the end of this world as you know it" will face demons on a mission to destroy the human race with confidence. Will you accompany them on this hair raising adventure and journey to the outer edge of human experience as a virtual combatant in the final battle? Every reader is presented the Sword of Truth and the Shield of Faith to be converted internally and ready externally for conflict with the enemy of souls, who is now ready to cast his net over the unwary of this world.

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• Publié par: Inspiring Voices
• Date de parution: 15 avril 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781462412600
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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The Romance
The Indivisible Light: A Trilogy
Book 1
 
 
 
David Pedri
 
 
 
 
 

 
Copyright © 2019 David Pedri.
 
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
 
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All Scripture quotations are taken from the Douay Rheims Version.
 
ISBN: 978-1-4624-1259-4 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4624-1260-0 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019902097
 
Inspiring Voices rev. date: 3/18/2019
Contents
Preface
CHAPTER 1     The Encounter
CHAPTER 2     The Party
CHAPTER 3     The Lion
CHAPTER 4     The Conversion Question
CHAPTER 5     Gold Diggers
CHAPTER 6     Fr. Keogh’s Counsel
CHAPTER 7     A Christian Republic
CHAPTER 8     Spies
CHAPTER 9     For Better or for Worse
CHAPTER 10   Disengagement?
Preface
This trilogy is written for the sake of my reader’s understanding, because I believe the average person, without being an expert, a philosopher or theologian is able to conceive practical, political, moral, philosophical and religious truths in his heart and mind, where the Omniscient God communes with each person. However, it is always necessary and prudent that mortal men be guided and formed in conscience by the objective inspirations and foundations of God’s Holy Spirit, a subject of discussion in this trilogy, along with the nature of divine Faith, a gift from the Almighty. My focus is to explain many truths and apparent mysteries, out of respect for the reader’s powers of intelligence, given to all; for Holy Scripture tells us: “And God created man to his own image … male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1: 27) That ‘image’ is not physical; it consists of our reason and free-will.
David, the protagonist, resembles the author in good measure. He expounds on many things. I do not wish him to be boring, yet I do not expect to fill every page with easy entertainment. Aristotle’s classical definition of poetry or fiction described the author’s purpose to both instruct and delight his audience. I seek to transmit to the reader enlightenment on the “freight train” of entertainment. To do this, I draw principally on my Faith and God’s Word, but also on my serious thirty-seven year study of life, fatherhood, history, socio-political and ecclesiastical events, philosophy, theology and prophecy.
The content of these lessons I have learned from life and its Creator, however much my education gave me some tools to articulate those lessons. This trilogy was three years in the making. I seem to be wired to write like the sculptor carves, revealing more of what is finally intended, one layer at a time. Therefore, it often took a dozen editions before forming the mature meaning and final form desired. As to the content of these volumes, I do not hesitate to claim that every reader will be enriched, regardless of their religious creed and other persuasions.
I was born in Columbus, Ohio, where my dad, the son of first-generation Austrian immigrants, earned a degree at Ohio State in petroleum geology, using the GI bill after serving in WWII. My mom’s paternal ancestors immigrated from County Donegal, Ireland in 1850, and her maternal ancestors came from Germany during the Civil War. We rode the Pullman passenger train from Ohio to Wyoming when I was four, so Dad could start work for Stanolind Oil. Every two or three years we visited my mom’s folks in Greenwood, Florida, where in 1945 she met Dad, a B-26 bombardier (decorated with the silver star), who was training airmen at a nearby base.
My work experience is varied: heavy equipment and uranium mill operator, carpenter, geologist and school teacher. In 1968 I joined the U.S. Navy as a Hospital Corpsman, with duty stations at Bethsaida Naval Hospital, Camp Pendleton and finally with the 1 st Marine Division’s reconnaissance battalion out of Da Nang, Vietnam, as a medic, 1970-71.
My wife and I earned degrees in English at the University of Wyoming, after which we continued to raise our twelve children in Wyoming, homeschooling all of them through high school. Danna, my wife of 47 years, is my secretary and my ‘life support’. Without her help, my writing would never see the light of day.
David Pedri
March 2019
Chapter 1 THE ENCOUNTER
O n the first of August David walked across campus to his last summer school class, a study in the works of Milton, the reputed poet-champion of English Protestantism. The 3 PM course was a three-credit requirement for his English literature curriculum at the sprawling, well-funded community college campus that served a Wyoming town of 35,000 and surrounding communities.
Professor Chipens was, of course, a Milton fan. David, by way of his traditional Catholic Faith, was not so well disposed. The sparks started to fly when Milton’s reasons against censorship were read. David raised his hand. Given the nod, he stood up and began his ‘discourse’. “We censor porn to children because we believe it will harm them. From that one fact, it follows that we believe, even as a matter of law, that harm to the reader and to society are good enough reasons for censorship. Even today, those reasons out-weigh the careless call of liberals for an unprincipled liberty which permits us to say and do whatever we please. Milton’s defense of no censorship amounted to a defense of unbridled opinion, heresy in religious matters that the Catholic Church in the 1600s would understandably consider ruinous to the Faith of the simple, uneducated souls under its care, souls who would be relatively defenseless against what appeared to them as learned truth, but perhaps was little more than political arguments for the freedom to rebel, in this case to be a Protestant. So, there may have been a good reason for the Catholic Church to censor those books containing what it considered to be ideas so harmful they threatened the eternal salvation of uneducated Catholic believers, childlike souls, the same kind we protect from pornography.” David sat down.
Professor Chipens spoke with the calm, confident insight of a scholar. “I think Mr. Peterson has emphasized a valuable point for us: we should always be ready to consider the perspective and self-interest of all conflicting parties at the time a work of literature is authored. History confirms that Milton’s dispute on this point of censorship was with the Roman Catholic Church. So, we must consider relevant society’s point of view in those times, their knowledge and their prejudices. In other words, we should not make judgements or take sides based on our opinion or current popular notions alone” David welcomed the Professor’s generous summary but also the intermission his comments afforded his own monologue.
Which he continued by standing up, in order to arrest attention and to announce that he was taking over the podium, again . “But my ideas go several steps further”, David said politely. “ The Catholic argument for censorship was based upon certain facts and principles of religious truth, derived by reason and good authority, the Bible in this case, while Milton’s protest of censorship, as I read it …” David stopped, surveying the amazingly rapid signs of intellectual slumber visible among his fellow classmates, but he continued anyway! “Milton defended an unlimited liberty, at least in the context of his times, one that demanded freedom from being expected to justify one’s opinions by valid rational arguments or by an appeal to a recognized authority. This was the heart of the Revolution, because in the past, causes, arguments and conclusions were expected to be based on what had been established as proven truth or could be presently demonstrated as such.” David decided on a diversion that he realized might risk losing those still following his argument. “A modern person may want to ask me Pontius Pilot’s question: ‘what is truth’. My answer: ‘ 2+2=4’, which is self-evident , and that is often a hallmark of truth. “ He turned to face the instructor, perhaps the only one who was still listening, “Milton wrote in behalf of Protestant revolutionaries, from a protester’s point of view, Sir. I believe his revolting opinion is relevant for us because it also underwrites our modern conception of free speech and liberty in general, which is not a freedom from unjust interference in the right to do what is good and to speak what is true, but a rebel’s liberty to speak for his cause, his opinion, right or wrong, good or bad, that is, to speak as one pleases or thinks best. And many would say, ‘what’s wrong with that?’ But at the same time, they would be asking the God of Genesis, ‘why did you tell Adam and Eve not to eat of ‘ the tree of good and evil .’ What I am saying sir,