We are living in very challenging times. The level of anxiety is unprecedented. I see it every day as a faith-based life coach.This book is not about me, although I will share my experiences. It is about you and how you can live a life filled with confidence, calm, and purpose even as the world around you is exploding. This is what God wants for you. What I share really works and has changed the lives of thousands.God Bless you and your family.April 2017. Home from ...

For many years I lived in a state of anxiety and fear. In fact, as a retired veteran, I experienced severe PTSD. In December of 2015 I had a major heart malfunction and according to my doctor I was only twelve seconds from death. During that time, I was engulfed in the most beautiful light. The love, peace and calm were overwhelming. In this book I do my best to describe it and what I've come to understand as a result of this wonderful experience. One of the most important things is how to...

I realized that the peace I was experiencing was from God. But what I had not yet realized was that the adversity I would continue to face was God's way of helping me to strengthen my spiritual self, which, I believe, is the main reason he put me on this earth. Furthermore, it became very clear to me as life went on, that achieving ultimate peace is a journey not a destination.Years of experience taught me that life does not allow peace to remain stagnant. Adversity will force it t...

In the splendid countryside of North Yorkshire, there’s barely time to stop for Constable Nick Rhea.Not when missing sheep need locating, stray dogs need homing, and thieves need identifying! As Britain’s most popular copper continues his work around the village, he has to cope with an array of eccentric characters: a postman who can’t read, a helpful lady who steals from the elderly people in her care, and a delightful small-time villain called Tin Lid Talbot. Win...

Our Journey to a God Centered Marriage- a love storyDarlene and I met in October 1980 when we were Darlene and I met in October 1980 when we were both in the army. We were attracted to each other but for different reasons. By the end of the first week, we were becoming friends, soon, we knew our relationship had a very special and very different purpose. Darlene had a very strong spiritual relationship with God while my life had turned me relationship with God while my life had tur...

The sun was shining brightly, there was a warm breeze blowing in off the lake and the chapel was small and cozy. As I stood with my best man and the Navy Chaplain, all of us in our dress uniforms, my anticipation was off the chart and my pulse rate must have been peaked out.As I looked down the aisle of the chapel, I was completely overwhelmed with a deep, deep sense of love as my beautiful Darlene started walking toward me on her father's arm. That was the day that we were married...

In the beautiful North Yorkshire countryside of the 1960s, Constable Nick’s roles are as varied as the eccentric villagers. He handles every encounter with his characteristic humor, humanity, and professionalism.His investigations include the case of a clever pony who keeps escaping, a woman running through town naked, and a pack of Canadian timber wolves hanging out in a bus shelter.He soon gets to know all the characters on his beat, from his superior officer Sergeant Bla...

Alone in the midnight hours with nothing but dead leaves, stray cats, and legends of ghosts and ghoulies to accompany him. A sleeping village doesn’t mean a simple shift, though. Between the early risers of the farming community, a badger with a sweet tooth, and getting to know his new workmates, there’s no time for Nick to kick his feet up in the station.And of course there’s Claude Jeremiah Greengrass! Why did he have to retreat hastily down a ladder from a lady’s bedroom and wha...

A stolen maypole, romantic con artists, and the case of a missing child.The villagers are quite a handful, from the rogue that is Claude Jeremiah Greengrass and his wily dog, Alfred, to the mysterious spinster Adelaide Bowes.Even some of the newcomers seem to be a little odd. But thankfully for Constable Nick, they are mostly law-abiding characters.But when old conflicts between villages flare up, it’s Constable Nick who has to sort things out.

A delightful account of Constable Nick’s foray into the CID, or, as he thinks of it, “Constable In Disguise”Nick joins the Criminal Investigation Department to learn about the work of the detectives in civilian clothes.Asked to keep a watchful eye on a house thought to be used as a brothel, Nick quietly climbs the roof and sends a tile crashing through the window. When the woman inside and her five brothers attack the neighbors for causing the damage, the police turn out in...

Britain’s most popular bobby gets back on the beat.Constable Nick proves once again that a policeman’s lot on the windswept heather-clad moors of North Yorkshire was a very happy one.In this delightful collection of tales of Daffodil Duty and Sheep Worrying, his duties are as varied and humorous as ever. Young Nick joins Albert Potter for a drink and discovers his homemade moorland wines are a headache in every sense of the word. When a farmer fits an eject...

Dirty tricks at the best-kept village competitionConstable Nick patrols his rural Yorkshire beat on foot or on his trusty Francis Barnett motorcycle. But as beautiful as the villages are, they conceal real human drama.Nick is on hand to help out when Aidensfield decides to enter the Best Kept Village competition and finds itself the victim of a dirty tricks campaign by its rivals.Then there is the mystery of the spontaneously combusting hen-house, a...