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by Gail Jacobs Johnson (Editor), Justin Hintz (Editor), Nancy Maritza Trujillo (Photographer)
COFFEE WITH GOD by RANDY RAN-THE EXPANDED EDITION is composed of inspirational messages that originated from God and my heart. I don't hear Gods voice in my head, I hear His voice in my heart. I have found that when I talk with God I have His undivided attention. These inspirational talks have helped many others to develop an even stronger and deeper relationship not just with God, but with family, friends and themselves as well. I truly believe this... If we walk together, we can talk together. If we meet together, we can eat together. and... If we pray together, we can stay together. Remember love is just a word until you put it between you and I, so if nobody has told you they love you today...I love you and God does too.
Author Biography
In June of 2007, I finally decided that I was done with the relationship I had so intimately developed with the disease of addiction. I had been courted, engaged and married to an entity that had no actual physical body, but it had a spiritual malady that had taken over my life. I had no idea that it was capable of such devastation, pain, manipulation and death, and not just actual death, but the death of my soul. I noticed the change in my heart and the things that I had once cared about, the compassion I once had for others in my life. I found the quality of my life no longer existed and that the only thing that ultimately mattered was the mind altering substances that I needed to put into my body. At first it was a subtle introduction, watching others as they would drink beverages that I wasn't allowed to drink, and how they would change their spiritual and mental being. I watched as the consumption of these beverages became a staple at social gatherings, and they were served in special glasses, or served in colorful cans with a pop top. I noticed that many people would change their attitudes and they would laugh loudly and have lots of fun with whatever they were doing. I was just a kid at the time, but I wanted to have fun like the adults were having fun. So much that we as kids sometimes "acted" the way some of the adults were acting after a few drinks. At an early age I heard the word many times but I had no idea "alcoholic" would someday be a word to describe the person I had become. I heard the word not so often but I had no idea the word "addict" would someday be used to describe what I am. In 30 years I learned a lot of things about my life and who I had become, I am not proud of the things I did, but I am proud that I can now admit that I made lots of mistakes. I know that my parents raised me to be a responsible and respectable child of God. They tried to instill in me the qualities of a compassionate, honest and trusting human being. I took all those qualities and traits, and used them to manipulate and become a "soul" controlled by mind altering substances, because my disease made me to think that it was a way to overcome my "identity crisis". My disease taught me, if I wanted to be somebody, I had to act like somebody else.
