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A Spiritual Compass in Pursuit of Life's Destiny Aug 01, 2008
By Loyal Disciple
It's is a pleasure to join Dree in her quest to find her purpose, identity, and destiny. The journey is intriguing and inviting revealing the many obstacles that we face in our attempt to discover God's dream for our lives. This book provides practical and relevant experiences with faith inspired solutions that encourages me to press through difficult circumstances to achieve my God ordained purpose in life. I will always look for the character "Grace" to be near by throughout my own personal quest to discover my true purpose.
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A Book Portraying a Journey of Faith May 31, 2008
By Bettie Corbin Tucker
In writing Inside the Master Key, Vivian C. Campbell has given readers a unique, inspirational book that cannot be easily categorized. Nor will it be forgotten! Biblical truths are combined with the realities of life in scenes that happen mostly in the main character's dreamlike state. Readers follow her on a spiritual journey on the Path of Promise to the city of PID which stands for Purpose, Identity, and Destiny. Although most of the time, she is called Dree which means pain and heartache, her full name is Dreema. It is interesting to note where and when the full name is used. This is one of only a few books that I have read twice before writing a review. I did not want to miss any of Dree's experiences on the Path of Promise as she journeys to the place inside the Master Key where she gets the keys to a fulfilling life. It is intense reading designed to help readers find their own spiritual fulfillment and to understand the many challenges they may possibly face.
The storyline is briefly interrupted by a flashback in which readers learn about another time in Dree's life--twenty-six years earlier--when she traveled a road called Narrow Way, instead of Broad Way. She was married to Gem, a man she deeply loved, and shared a life typical of most married couples. In moving from place to place, she describes the impact that others had on their spiritual walk.
One day Dree takes an early bus to visit a friend; however, when the driver makes a stop in front of some cottages, she gets off the bus to take a better look, and her plans are changed. One cottage looks very similar to one that she and Gem had lived in twenty years earlier with their two children, bringing back a flood of memories. When an older woman named Angelica comes out to sweep the porch, they begin talking and Dree accepts her invitation to come inside. She spends the entire day with this woman who has angelic qualities, and Dree tells her intimate details about a painful episode in her marriage to Gem. The woman ministers to Dree, and the circumstances seem to be familiar in a way that can't be explained. Or can they? A year later Dree returns to the cottage hoping to visit Angelica, but she no longer lives there. She does, however, minister to another young woman who needs to know about God's love.
Dree is tempted to invest in a program that would give her earthly rewards. She attends a meeting but then realizes that she would be wasting time trying to gain worldly and materialistic possessions that have no permanent value. Though her eyes had momentarily taken her off the Narrow Road, she acknowledges that she wants the rewards that would be hers after her life on earth.
Throughout the story, Dree calls the Bible "His Book" and refers to the beautiful man that she sees in one of her spiritual pictures as "Him." He tells her that she will find her place in the heart of the Master Key and that there is much for her there. She must write about the key. As she travels the Path of Promise, a journey that is sometimes fearful and lonely, it is made easier by other characters she meets along the way. They guide, teach, and encourage her.
Scripture is presented in various ways throughout the book. I particularly thought the section on "More Than Meets the Eye" was intriguing in which the Shepherd expresses his belief that if Adam and Eve would have gotten to the tree of life first, they would have never eaten of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Some of the scripture is in spiritual pictures, some taught, and some seen through Dree's eyes as she reads His Book, allowing the words to strengthen her. Readers will have a greater understanding and knowledge of Job, Daniel, the Story of Esther, David and Goliath and other characters and stories from His Book. There is a trial depicted in which the defendant is found "not guilty" because he "pleads the blood." The prosecutor is D. Evil.
Dreema and readers will be grateful when she finishes her journey on the Path of Promise and makes it to the city of PID, inside the Master Key. And later, after Dreema's funeral and a glimpse of Paradise, readers will understand what Inside the Master Key is really all about.
This book is a "must-read" for those persons who desire to grow in their faith, take a new look at their spiritual life, and travel the Path of Promise to the Path of Fulfillment.
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Shame on the Night! Shame on Vivian Campbell! Jul 29, 2008
By Interplanetary Funksmanship
"Swift lippin', ego trippin', and body snatchin'"
Man, Vivian Campbell really stepped into it big time when he dissed frontman Ronnie James Dio and left the pinnacle of D+D rock for, of all bands, Def Leppard. Not to trash Def Lep, but that's like trading in a Ferrari Testarosa to buy a Ford Explorer.
I'm not going to read this book: Campbell is on my shiznazz list for badmouthing Dio.
Shame on you Viv Campbell, you poseur!
Dio doth live in the Rock of Ages.
For eternity.
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