Finding Calm: In the Storm of Everyday Living

By Theodore M. Stuckey

Do the struggles and the storms of daily living leave you with feelings of discontent, a sense of restlessness and general dissatisfaction with where you are at in your life right now ? Are you experiencing doubts, fears and live in a state of confusion and hope of a better future ? Let me share my life long struggles as a non believer of God for 53 years and how He has been faithfully and patiently waiting for me to accept Him as my Lord and Savior. The Lord has filled my heart with a peace, joy, calm and a contentment unlike anything I have ever known. His grace, love and truth have ignited a burning fire deep within my heart and soul and I want to inspire and provide the fuel necessary to ignite your heart as well. Discover as I have, that without Christ in your life, you will. continue to struggle with finding true peace, joy, happiness and contentment that most of us desire.Allow God to strengthen you and help you overcome what ever life challenges you are faced with. The power of the Holy Spirit that lives within in you will help you melt away whatever problems, fears and doubts you have. Let the Lord embrace you, comfort you and empower you to find the calm only He can provide.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Release date: Jul 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9781595558091

Theodore M. Stuckey

I am currently an over the road truck driver, who has been filled with the Grace of God the Father and His son our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This all happening after 53 years as a non-believer in God. I have a passion and a deep desire to reach out to other lost souls in the hopes of inspiring them to find the Love and the Peace of our Lord and Savior.

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NONBELIEVER TO BELIEVER

We had such a close, caring, loving relationship, although I was a nonbeliever in God and she was a strong faithful believer. She never pushed or demanded that I become a believer. On occasion I went with her to church, not so much for me but for my love for her.

She accepted me the way I was and I am sure she prayed that one day I would see the light and come to the Lord. Because I was hurting and in pain from losing her, I made a commitment to start reading some of her Christian devotionals and books to see if that would help heal the hurt inside.

I also did some praying, mostly the Lord’s Prayer and the Lord Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace prayer found in one of her books. I also read and used the Serenity Prayer and would read the words from scripture she requested for her service.

The other thing I did was start asking her for forgiveness since I was away from home a great deal as an over-the-road truck driver. I had lost a job as a field manager in the satellite industry several years earlier and at age sixty wasn’t able to find a job, so I became a truck driver.

I kept reading for over 15 months and then one day while driving through Wisconsin, God’s Grace happened to me. It was the most glorious thing that has ever happened to me. My whole body and my heart was filled with a warm radiant glow and I felt the Lord’s presence within me.

It was an explosion of a thousand lightbulbs going off in my head, and a joy, an exhilaration beyond words. I was ecstatic, excited, and most of all in reverent awe. I was like a little child come Christmas morning to see all those wonderful presents under the tree. Tears rolled down my eyes and it was at that moment that I became a true believer in God the Father almighty and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

It was April 2017 that this amazing journey of mine started. From that moment on I have not stopped thinking about, meditating on, praying and reading God’s holy words of truth. Revelation after revelation is being presented to me now on a daily basis and I just can’t seem to get enough of His message. His never-ending Love, Grace, Mercy and the many blessings He abundantly pours out to us just leaves me speechless.

My prayer life is as an Indy 500 formula race car on high-octane fuel running at full throttle. I am on an amazing journey, and He has put me on a path that is hard to explain. His presence and His grace have given me a peace and a calm unlike anything I have ever experienced in my life.

He has called me to write this book so that through my life’s struggles as a nonbeliever, I can hopefully inspire other lost souls to live a more satisfying and peaceful life through Jesus Christ.

It’s as though Christ has prepared me all my life to spread His words of truth and give hope to others in living a better way, a better life, and having a better future.

For as Jesus said in John 14:6: I am the Way, the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father except through Me.

I am sixty-six years old and a man of very modest means. I don’t have a lot of money, don’t have a large nest egg to fall back on, still have a mortgage to pay off, and still need to work to pay all my bills just like many of us. While most people my age are looking to retire, I