Shattered People: Journeys to Love [Hardcover]

Michael E. Chalberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2005

Journeys to Love continues the saga of people being healed after a lifetime of abuse, as they discover and accept the truth about God's love. Walk beside them over the next four years as they begin to learn the reasons for their survival and why God said to them; "I will love you with an everlasting love and I will heal you. Your wholeness will be found in Me¿not as the world understands wholeness, but as I give it. You will remain a multiple for My purposes because each of you will have a testimony to give about My power to heal and receive all who come to Me." These people will struggle through life's most imposing questions facing all of us. What is God's definition of a person: body, mind, soul and spirit? Does the soul exist in two dimensions simultaneously and live beyond the body's death? Why does God save them, only to allow them to continue to suffer physically, emotionally and spiritually in this world? Why is evil so adamant in attempting to break their relationship with God? Can they trust God enough to survive in a world that doesn't accept them?

Product Details

• Hardcover: 524 pages
• Publisher: Shepherds Care Publishing (March 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097464644X
• ISBN-13: 978-0974646442
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,272,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review by Dr. Joe Johnson, Huntington Beach, CA, June 15, 2005

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This review is from: Shattered People: Journeys to Love (Paperback)

Journey to Love is for every kind of reader. The continuing history of Maria, diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder (Dissociative Identity Disorder) provides a clinical study of a client, whose parts separately mature and learn to pull together through the caring counsel and trusting relationship with Pastor Chalberg. She endures a long journey of pain, never pretending to be strong, but exhibiting strength as the inner parts cooperate to build health, career and relationships.

On another level, this book is a parable of truth, which instructs and challenges the individual, family groups, and even the church. One can relate to the various personalities' sacrifice of their own preferences for the sake of wholeness and unity. There is powerful wisdom here about respect in relationships and loving God in a passionate but practical way.

Finally, it is a good story: full of unthinkable struggle, tenacious love, and unexpected humor. It illustrates Jesus' words: "Beware that you don't despise a single one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven are always beholding the face of My Father" - Matthew 18:10.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Journey Out of Darkness, April 16, 2005

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This review is from: Shattered People: Journeys to Love (Paperback)

A Review by Dr. Lindsay Malcolm, Pleasanton, CA

In his first book, Shattered People: Journeys to Joy, Mike Chalberg began the amazing true story of one woman's journey out of darkness. Now, in this sequel, Journeys to Love, he continues to chronicle the lives of the personalities locked in Maria's body, as they search for healing and meaning in a world that will not accept them. One's perspective on the meaning of suffering cannot remain unchanged after reading this book.

Journeys to Love lays open the emotional, physical and spiritual reality of Maria's personalities and their conflicts both internal and external. Maria's fight to save her marriage-against all that seems reasonable-will challenge one's concept of commitment; and her innocent attempts to involve a wealthy suburban church into serving the poor will nourish the soul. Mariann's quest to be seen and accepted for who she is will wrench the heart. Her abilities to see into the spirit-world will challenge one's perception of what is real; and her passion to worship Jesus with unfettered love will convict the heart.

As the System battles the effects of chemotherapy, they continue as well the spiritual battles against forces that would draw them back into the Santeria and attempt to hinder the healing that Jesus is bringing into their lives. Throughout the book, one is called to rethink both what it means to be a Christian and who we are as individual souls.