2 Close Apart

By Maurice Rankin

The only difference between the future and today is choice. Wisdom is the oil refined squeezed from the mistakes of the past, and if we use the precious oils of wisdom to light the paths of our lives, we create a special opportunity to leverage our choice today in such a way that we are propelled toward our true destiny. Your future and present are 2 Close Apart. Enjoy the ride of living life to its fullest one day at a time!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: May 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9781685172176

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The Beginning

Life sometimes may appear to be overflowing with great opportunities. Then at times, life can involve disappointments that seem to plague us all with overdramatic pain. I boldly confess that as I was growing up (and even now) that " I made many mistakes !" This can be pointed out very easily with how I treated the women throughout my entire life. From my mom to my sister, my girlfriends, my ex-wife, and all women in general, I take full responsibility for this self-awareness and fact. Nothing I can do will ever change this fact, and I know these thoughts and actions are not pleasing in God’s sight.

Over the period of thirty years, I have been able to somehow rationalize my past by accepting my womanizing behavior, and I must confess being a manipulative narcissistic was never the person I wanted to become. I could use this time and make excuses about how I was taught to play games with women. I could very easily use this book to deflect the fact that I performed countless acts of dating multiple women then redirect and justify those actions based on peer talk I overheard from my older cousins or blame my egotistical nature on my eccentric father.

Nevertheless, I mourn when I remember the constant battles inside my teenage body and developing mind. I recall the persistent jousting of my own spirit while simultaneously trying to figure out the meaning of the word love or how to usefully project true love to another person.

I am pretty sure we all have felt this dilemma at some point in life. Maybe you were luckier than me and found your first love in a puppy (or another domestic animal). However, if you had hormones and you are or were a teenager at some point, I am confident you understand the quest for true love in some seems of the phase itself. Was that Cupid who was the Greek god of love? I recall images of a baby-like being with wings and a bow and arrow. His job was to shoot people with love arrows, and they would magically fall in