D Condry-Paulk

Spiritually Spooked D Condry-Paulk

"Spiritually Spooked" demonstrates, for the reader, that relationships either drive an individual's spiritual growth toward their destiny or impede it. If the reader hasn't discovered their destiny; their reason for being, this book may generate the discovery. For whether one is reading poetry, the prose of the Biblical-character monologues, relationships influence the individual's choice that is fed by spiritual faith's guidance or is fed by self-trust that hasn't sought God-knowledge from the Bible. This writer develops the perceived reality that the life lived IS identity- not one's name or profession. Destiny, in other words, and identity become synonymous. In the prose selection "Self-made vs Authentic," the lines: "The self-made person...does all the right things...slips up; turns on you with spite or worse, then slides again into the portrait of nice, hiding that corrupt destruction of self behind the image of the self-created "I" like Dorian Gray." Or from the monologue, "Joshua" where the patriarch is speaking of Israel's bondage: "God told us that He was a jealous God, that as long as we honored Him with obedience (which only leads to good things), He would be with us." The people you meet in "Spiritually Spooked," know who they are. If asked, "Who are you?" they wouldn't give only their name. They would reveal their essence. Perhaps David would say, even at an early age: "I'm David, God's chosen King for His people." David's identity is quite full as his monologue reveals.