A Chink in Time

By Gina C Barker

This book combines the tranquillity of nature, with the bare facts of life that we all have to endure every day.
Experiences that each of us face as we go through our lives are captured in the words of a poem. Love, joy, pain, or anguish; then with the flip of a page you can immerse yourself in the beauty of a warm sunny day at the beach, or a stroll in the open countryside. This is a book that can help people put their life into perspective; by, for a few moments, taking them away from their daily angsts, to a place within, where their soul can begin to heal.
All this, plus the underlying spirituality that first gave birth to it all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Aug 8, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504363020

Gina C Barker

Although I was born in Birmingham, I grew up and lived most of my life in Cornwall; my parents moved here when I was about two years of age, so I was very lucky as Cornwall is known for being a very Spiritual and artistic place. It was at school I first began to feel I was just a little bit different; I never quite fitted, and always felt apart from the others; I was a quiet child, therefore I spent a lot of time on my own, in nature, or with my beloved horses; it was whilst I was out walking in the in the countryside one day that I discovered I had somehow been given this astonishing gift of words; it is something I shall never forget. After that I began some serious writing; within a couple of years I started sending poems off to competitions, and actually had a lot of recognition for them. My confidence grew when in 2003 I won an award from The International Society of Poets, plus recognition as ‘Poet of the Year,’ on many occasions. My first book ‘Those Summers Long Ago,’ was self-published in 2005, ‘A Crystal Dawn was published in 2006 by ‘United Press,’ then last year it was my turn to win the ‘United Press Christmas poem 2015,’ which was publicised in the local press.

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PROLOGUE

A long time ago, nearly twenty years to be exact, I experienced something so profound that I shall, for as long as I live, never forget it.

They say that once you have been Touched by an Angel, it is something you will remember forever, and nothing in your life will ever be quite the same again. How true that is, I know, for it happened to me, and yes it’s true, I shall never forget that moment; it was a moment in time that remains so deeply etched into my mind that there really are no words powerful enough to do it justice. Being brutally honest though, I can’t say it changed my life at all, not right then anyway, it was something that happened gradually over the years that followed, and then not in the way you might expect it to, only now, after learning much more and following the guidance of many wonderful teachers and mentors, it is now when I look back to that night I realise just how truly exceptional it was. The feeling has never left me, and that Angel, or Guide, who visited me that night gave me the most extraordinary gift, the gift of words; to say it changed my life, well yes, I suppose what it did, was to change the way I looked at my life, but as I said, the true life lessons were to come much, much later.

I remember it all just as if it were yesterday; my life at that time was pretty tough, I had recently lost my Father, one of my beloved horses had died and work, well, work was mundane to say the least, but it brought in the money and that was what I needed. I was feeling low, I was alone and wished I had someone to share my life with; unfortunately, this led me down the path of many dead end relationships, none of which helped my self esteem; I was beginning to feel hopeless, useless, and lost, my life consisted of work, eat, sleep and work again, I thought, there has to be a light at the end of this tunnel, because always, deep down inside I felt a need or longing to do so much more, it was like there was something missing; that’s when it