Bøger af Jerry Koch

My Father William John Koch saw his first military action in the initial landing on Okinawa on April 1st 1945. It was both April Fools' Day and Easter, 74 years ago. Little did anyone know that he had only 77 days to live.My mother, Betty, saved his many letters home to his mother, his father, and to her. The letters are intimate, often misspelled and ungrammatical, occasionally angry or funny or scared.My Father, Myself is based on these letters. It tells the story of the common man, a father worried about his babies and young wife. Bill was a soldier in the lower ranks whose life was grist for the war machine. The letters are supported with news clippings, magazine articles, and other sources of fact from the times. Kilroy drops by to add a bit of fancy.I met my father in these letters; I hope you are as intrigued by his journey as I have been. I believe he knows how his little family grew and eventually prospered through some trying times to be the family who would earn his pride.My Father, Myself is an 8x10 portable museum--a picture book to thumb through as much as it is a written history. Start where you wish, with subjects that interest you most. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed assembling it.

We are on a journey with Jesus, but we spend most of our time trying to understand the journey instead of enjoying the trip.This book is a sort of allegory. We are God's sailing vessels on a journey across spiritual oceans to discover the depth of our relationship with our Father, with Jesus, and with the Holy Spirit.It's not a journey of destinations, but a journey discovering who we are and what has been given to us by our Captain, Jesus. He has destined us for this voyage to learn through His grace, how to use what we have hidden deep in our inner man.Our destiny is in the voyage, not in the destination. He has given us a Navigator to assure us of our course heading and arrivals at spiritual ports that He has destined us to experience.But will we trust our Navigator and the Captain of our soul? Are we flowing with Him, or taking over by our own efforts to follow our plan?I spent a number of years sailing through the Caribbean, to Central and South America, running from God, finding that Jesus never left me. He drew me back to Him. He then took those experiences to show me how they parallel our journey with Him.It's only by grace that we can make this voyage. So let's take this journey together to find out who we are, what we have been given, and how to flow in this grace.