Musings of a Traveler Headed Home: They Were Pilgrims and Strangers … (Heb. 11:13)

By Thomas Ashley Young

As a follow-up to his best-selling book, “Going Home - A Backpacker’s Journey,” Thomas Ashley Young continues his travels this time from everyday experiences that border on the insane. Ripe with peripheral invisibleness, Tom’s journeys could be your own; that is, if you jump ouside the box that others have crystallized for you. His expanded use of outside-the-writing-rules techniques have earned him raised eyebrows from even his closest friends. Said one, “Tom is a certified nut, but at least he’s screwed onto the right Bolt.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Dec 31, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664211537

Thomas Ashley Young

Thomas Ashley Young has written a best-selling book entitled: “Going Home: A Backpacker’s Journey,” which won first place in the Autobiography category from the publisher. His sometimes explosive personality, coupled with a God-given gentleness, has earned him respect amongst many Uber riders. Currently living in Oklahoma, Tom continues his quest for greatness through an ongoing series of pruning trials.

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ISBN: 978-1-6642-1152-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-6642-1154-4 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-6642-1153-7 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2020921932

WestBow Press rev. date: 12/30/2020

CONTENTS

Chapter 0 What Happened After Going Home?

Chapter 1 Flies And Bedbugs And Gnats, Oh My!

Chapter 2 Moles

Chapter 3 Living In A Coronavirus World

Chapter 4 Between The Church Lines

Chapter 5 Are You (Really) Joking?

Chapter 6 The Little Kid Inside Me

Chapter 7 Dreams

Chapter 8 Guarding The Van Of Toxic Waste

Chapter 9 It’s Not The Same

Chapter 10 G. O. L. F.

Chapter 11 And Here She Is — The Curious Banana

Chapter 12 God Does Heal Cars (Sometimes)

Chapter 13 What Happened Next?

Chapter 14 Death

Chapter 15 Anger, Simplified

Chapter 16 Empty Calories

Chapter 17 D — Duh Dee — The Thee — The That’s All The Dopplerings, Folks!

Chapter 18 The W(H)Eather Report

Chapter 19 The Cheap Motel

Chapter 20 It’s … Your … Birthday!

Chapter 21 Old People Have Time For Everyone

Chapter 22 The Doubting Of Thomas

Chapter 23 Who I Am

Chapter 24 Finally

Chapter 25 Porn Is Boring

Chapter 26 Prophetic Appreciation

Chapter 28 —> The Dedication Postfaced Here

Chapter 29 The

CHAPTER 0

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WHAT HAPPENED AFTER GOING HOME?

06/01/1983 - Church of the Wildwood (SALVATION!)

06/15/1983 - Pastor Denny

08/15/1983 - Arrive at Abbott Loop Christian Center

06/01/1984 - Deliverance over the phone. Arrive at Community Chapel and Bible Training Center

08/20/1984 2:00 PM - Dear Irene, May this book inspire you once again. God bless you. Love, (Barbara Young) Tom Young

08/20/1984 5:00 PM - Mrs. Irene M. Howes, aged 73, of the Michigan Veteran’s Facility, formerly of Kent City (MI), passed away Monday, August 20, 1984

02/26/1988 - Community Chapel and Bible Training Center split

07/04/1988 - Community Chapel and Bible Training Center termination

07/25/1988 - The start of anti-depression meds

09/07/1988 - Times Square Church (David Wilkerson)

06/13/1989 - Hope of the World Church (Jonathan Cahn)

05/31/1991 - Death Valley entrance

07/04/1991 - Death Valley exit

02/23/1992 - The prophecy from Brenda Frost about being a man of God

02/24/1992 (and beyond) - The death of the prophecy

07/12/2020 - Someone can’t breathe.

CHAPTER 1

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FLIES AND BEDBUGS AND GNATS, OH MY!

Thou shalt not kill (Exodus 20:13) is man’s