Bøker av Jamey Dye

Bilbo Baggins said: "It is a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You Step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." - J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the RingsAs I look back forty years ago, this was the way of it. The PCT became the beginning of a journey into a beautiful life. A life different than, smaller than, and bigger then, I ever imagined possible.I made three decisions in 1982 that shaped the trajectory of the rest of my life. Age 16 is a season for that type of thing, but these decisions were not of the: what college will I go to or what am I going to be when I grow up type. They were of the "I am going to do a thing" type.Thing one was I am going to quit High School for a year and walk the Pacific Crest Trail. Thing two was I am going to pursue this girl named Cheryl Lewin. Thing three was I am not going back to the missionary field with my parents. Instead, I will become an emancipated minor, move in with my older brother in Pasadena, California and finish high school.These three things are interrelated, and they happened in the order mentioned. On March 26th 1982, Tom and I stood at a small wooden fence post labeled Pacific Crest Trail and began a life-changing journey. This story is about the highs and lows of that journey and how it shaped my relationship with Cheryl Lewin Dye. The story explores our young love, and the rough patches we encountered as we navigated a cross-cultural relationship. How a missionary kid from the jungles of Papua New Guinea and a church girl from Southern California forged a life together.If there are things you have pondered doing but are afraid of what others might think, afraid you can't afford it, afraid they will not work out as planned. I urge you to reconsider.This book is an abbreviated version of a book previously published with a more spiritual focus under the title A Rumble with Life, Love, and God on the PCT.

If Covid has taught us anything, it is that people do not change their minds easily. We can be loving and gentle in our speech and advance our clever arguments backed by data, and people will still believe what they want to believe. Jesus understood this. Luke tells us that during the Triumphal Entry, when he should have been reveling in the crowd's praise, Jesus was weeping and said: "How I wish today that you of all people would understand the way to peace. But now it is too late, and peace is hidden from your eyes." Luke 19:42 NLTOne of Jesus's more famous stories is about a rich man and a poor beggar. When both men die, the poor man is with Abraham, and the rich man is in a place of agony and flame and calls to Abraham for the poor man to come to his aid. The rich man's request prompts a conversation between Abraham and the rich man with this chilling conclusion: "And he [the rich man] said, 'Then I request of you, father, that you send him to my father's house- for I have five brothers-in order that he may warn them so that they will not come to this place of torment as well.' But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.' But he said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!' But he said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.'" Luke 16:27-31 NASB2020Jesus spoke and taught among the people, he worked miracles and fulfilled scripture to prove he was God, but people did not recognize him because his approach to power did not align with their understanding. This book reflects on Jesus's methods of managing political power and contextualizes some of his speeches to illuminate how his power-loving antagonists might view them. I hope this book will shine new light on Jesus and his ministry and awaken you to the idea that his ways are not our ways. Then, maybe our ways should change to be more like his.I pray that in reading this book, you will be awakened to what the Holy Spirit is actively doing in your faith community in hopes that you will partner with him to bring God's Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.