A Future More Than This Book I: Everything Is Falling

By D. Michael Grant

On July 17th 2018, D. Michael met his twin flame who awakened something in his spirit
that gave us,”A Future More Than This.”

He hopes that by reading his first work you will come away with an understanding that when it comes to God, it is more about a relationship than a religion.
And that the best religion that you could ever hope to practice is the one that you are practicing now!

We are all more than what we seem at first read.
And not only is love all you need; in the end, love is all there is!
Everything else; as strange as it might seem, is an illusion!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796078534

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Rev. date: 12/28/2019

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Contents

The Roots of Heaven

The Gift

Turn Your Hands On The World And Dream

As It Was In The Beginning

A Rush to War

To Sin And Be At Rest

The Things We Love The Most

Our little talks

I saw her briefly once as I walked My Lands

Everything is falling

A love I could not save

Not for keeping

Beyond the Glass

The Lies Men Tell

The Least Among Us

Finding Home

Birthday Blessings

The Code

The Crossing

Spring Grove

Dear Son

Your Love Alone

Responsibility

Against all Hope

Ruminations

Time enough to Pray

The Way Back Home

All that I want

The Arrangement

Early On

Making Choice

The Shape Of Things

Castapart

How quickly do things Change

That part of you I carry

Memories Of Forgotten Dreams

A Note to Self

The Virtues Of Winning And Losing

No smoking

Reasons may exist

The Power To Forgive

Turning Point

Braving Hills

Starlings

The Girl Within

Confession

A Word That Lies

The Day We Met

A Dark Matter

Road To The Whitehouse

Because I First Believed

Fatherhood

The Man To Beat

Dust and Shadows

The Plea

The Man I Am

The Game Of Life

What Is Wisdom

The Greater Good

Hymn Of The Apostate

Being Poor

Truly Blessed

Once in Darkness

Fabric

And the sky will be our witness

The Becoming

Finding Words

The Fringe

Suing For Peace

The Antecedent

Count Your Minutes

Terra Nova

Lessons From The Sun And Rain

My Life Was Never About Me

Life

Now Begin The Days

Who I Am

In This Life Or The Next

The Cross And Chain

Dear Reader;

In my life I have been a teacher and a student, a son and a father, a stranger and a friend.

For those who have met me I am sure they went away with strong opinions. What those opinions were is anyone’s guess.

I studied enough poetry in school to understand that I could write.

No one ever bothered to explain to me that this was something I might want to pursue as a career.

If my writing seems different, perhaps this is why?

I have; nonetheless, managed to live a blessed life. And what ever regrets I have they are too few to mention here.

Human suffering is a topic I revisit again and again in my writing, I suppose; because it has afforded me the opportunity to grow my spirit/body/mind.

Instead of internalizing it, I attempt to simply observe it.

Be a witness to the pain attached in an effort to let it go!

The forgiveness to be had or to be given; I try to get out of the way early.

Then record what has occurred so that others may laugh at my mistakes.

The love I have found is the only thing I get to take with me when I leave

so I make sure I honor it when it presents itself