Rebuilding a Life: How an Old-School Tale Inspired a Modern Day Comeback.

By JT Chosen

Have you wholeheartedly given years of your life to pursuing a dream only to discover it is someone elses dream? Are you just going through routines that no longer stir your interest or passion? In Rebuilding a Life, JT Chosen takes a seemingly simple historic account and demonstrates how to unearth your true passions and regain your joy. It is a rich source of insight on professional and spiritual growth. Through straightforward and sharp-witted candor, you will:

Be inspired to self- reflect

Rediscover your purpose and passion

Be motivated to let go of situations that imprison you

Be encouraged to dream your own dreams

Discover professional and personal enlightenment

Learn how to safeguard your peace of mind and spirit

Rebuilding a Life is an unaffected review of bible principles that will foster personal study and the pursuit of a deeper essence of accomplished living. If you are suddenly dissatisfied with life and unsure why, this book is for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: May 24, 2016
• ISBN: 9781512738230

JT Chosen

The author is an avid reader and pursuer of knowledge regarding the dilemmas of life. An educational background in medicine along with travel to various countries volunteering on medical mission trips lends to an extensive background from which to approach a variety of topics. The unparalleled insight and wisdom gained from a current quest for a joie de vivre inspired this book. The author believes credit for divine inspiration should remain with the Creator and therefore goes by the pseudonym, JT Chosen.

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Scripture taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

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ISBN: 978-1-5127-3822-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5127-3823-0 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016906087

WestBow Press rev. date: 05/24/2016

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter 1 The Plot

Chapter 2 A Do-Over

Chapter 3 Victim of Opportunity

Chapter 4 Share Options

Chapter 5 Hanging Tough

Chapter 6 Inside Job

Chapter 7 Combat Maneuvers

Chapter 8 Hindsight

Chapter 9 Beginning at the End

About the Author

Acknowledgements

I would like to express gratitude to B.C-M for her invaluable contribution and assistance throughout the writing process. Thanks are also due my group of friends that I call The Questers for their prodding aka encouragement to keep me on track during the project. I am indebted to the Holy Spirit for guiding me on this journey of revelation and renewal.

JT Chosen

Yesterday it all seemed clear

I was reassured knowing Your will,

Tomorrow was a past of conquered fears

The future, my empire to build.

Today though, there’s confusion

Overwhelming solitude and doubt.

I know from whence cometh my salvation,

But will it arrive before I bow out?

JTC

Preface

It was the best of times that somehow seemed to be the worst of times.

I had finally understood the genius of Charles Dickens in penning that line. It was the perfect description of my life.

I was suffocating. If I did this one more time, I knew I wouldn’t survive. I couldn’t explain it. It didn’t make any sense. I couldn’t stop it. It just was. But it couldn’t be. Not after all I had subjected myself to over the last decade, chasing this dream.

I had finally arrived. I had everything I needed, if not everything I wanted. I would finally be debt free and soon I would be saving towards that house; that life that I’d always planned on living. I would finally be able to travel the world I had longed to see, maybe have time to meet the mythical one, and start that family I had always planned on having. I was supposed to be pinnacled on the best of times.

However, to pull all that off, I would have to survive this. Whatever this was. If I could just label it, describe or explain it; then maybe I could get it resolved. What I did know was that this was tied to the professional career that was supposed