Michael Lachance

Satchel of Secrets (eBook, ePUB)

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The blasts tore the Humvee in half and the four-man fire team went up into the air, drifted mid-air like a slow-motion picture, and then they fell to the ground. Two men were in pieces and shrapnel ripped the other two men. Philip opened his eyes and thought he was adrift in a sea of dirt. He came to, got his med kit, and struggled to sit up, but his rib stuck through his skin, his skin was burned, and his lung punctured. Months later, the VA released him and he fought with life after the Army. He spent two years as a rifleman and six years as a combat medic and, now, he took job after job, move after move, and there was no satisfaction like the excitement, the adventure, the challenge of the Army. At the VA, Philip took the PTSD classes; he did DBT, peer support, groups, CBT, and acupuncture. On the outside of the VA, he changed religions like people change clothes. He converted to Mormonism, then to Methodists, then to Baptist and with every religion he hoped to break through the funk, to get out from under the oppression of the ambush. But the oppression persisted, images of his friends torn into pieces, the smell of burned flesh, blood on the street, gun fire, and enemy chatter caved his good spirit. The therapy, the religion, the meditation, the acupuncture didn't do it, didn't hit a homerun, but he cut and the cut worked. His wrists and forearms were a relief map of the rain forest with deep scars. It wasn't just the ambush, he survived and his friends did not survive. The suffering was too much, too intense and he wondered where was God in all his suffering? He was safe, for now, at the c-store, safe selling impulse items, safe selling lotto tickets, and safe selling tobacco. ` Behind the counter at the c-store, he pondered and regretted and hated the enemy, because they put him here. It was their fault, they attacked the convoy and, now, turned him from combat medic to clerk. In his apartment, he looked over his credit report and it added insult to injury. He moved over and over, he changed jobs over and over, but he did not change. Then, an angel came to him and offered him a way out of his suffering. Deliver answers to prayers. Philip hated the idea of a choice. If he had a choice, he'd have never let his buddies go with him on that convoy. But the angel offered him a choice to stay at the c-store or, like a disciple, take up a cross and deliver answers to prayers. The angel left a satchel for him and told him the rules. He can't read the answers, he can't tell anyone, and he must leave his life, his possessions, his car behind, and go on foot with just the satchel. Philip struggled with the idea, but it was a new mission and, he hoped, a chance to get out from under the oppression and out from under the suffering.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Michael Lachance
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798224488148
• Artikelnr.: 74370749

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For 2025!

I've got to new books out for late winter 2025:

The Fool Farmer is about Raphael who strives to better himself, but is a klutz in all that he does until he goes to America to improve his farming skills. Will his clumsiness prove too much for a Nebraska farmer or will they work to overcome his handicap?

Trailer Brake is about two different people in two different towns, Doris and Gerald pack up and head out in search of healing. Will their chance encounter help or make things worse for them?

Rodeo Clown: Emmett is a bull rider, drink until you drop, cowboy whose only tempered by his sister, Michelle, until William buys the land next to their land. To save himself and Emmett, William has to open up to his dark past and why he left New York City.

Satchel of Secrets is about an Army Veteran lost in a job at a c-store, but an angel offers him a choice to do something for God.

It's Such a Small World and Then, It's Not (In France, two men are brought together by Mona Lisa, a mallard duck)

Treaty of Versailles, The Power of Love, freshened up for 2025 with edits and new details!

Skipper Pete Books and Skipper Pete Travel on YouTube for book readings, comedy shows by me, and travel.

Every child starts off as a story teller. My family lived in west Ft. Lauderdale, FL out near the everglades. I was a fort builder, horse rider, hiker, adventurer, Disney park nut, party-goer, bad at math in school kid, 80's child--David Bowie-Let's Dance, Prince-1999, Billy Idol-Rebel Yell, Neil Diamond-America, all the movies that made us human--Sixteen Candles, Uncle Buck (GIANT PANCAKES), Duckie from Pretty in Pink, The Breakfast Club geek, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science (mall scene), Stand by Me - Gordie Lachance (You have to ask?), Foot Loose (Yeah!), The Goonies (LOVE adventurers), and a closet case hanging with my gal pal at Backstreets and at Cathode Rays on the "other side of the tracks! in FTL"

After that, I followed my dad's footsteps and joined the Air Force. I did basic training in Texas and then traveled to California to Asia to South America to Europe, an island in the Pacific, and an island in the Mediterranean.

I've been fortunate to travel throughout Europe in the last five years. My friend in Poland does not get Polish jokes! My other friend lives in Colmar, France where the Alsatian wines are brewed.

Life has a swath of stories to...