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Humans are on the brink of disaster...In the United States, President Samuel Cummings has taken the reins of a deeply divided country at a time when nuclear, chemical, biological and cyberthreats loom.Things look bleak until God's emissary Sarah, a composite of 40 million female souls from Heaven, arrives on Earth with the message that God is intervening in human affairs to save the human race from itself. God, she explains, is the life force of the universe, the only intelligent form of energy. People who help others grow their own life force will join God in Heaven. However, many humans are more inclined toward hatred, intolerance and greed and so God is intervening to course-correct them.The first thing Sarah does is to announce God's edict of 'thou shalt not kill' to the world. Anyone who tries to kill another person—or who enables someone to do so—will die instead. As commander-in-chief, Cummings must call back his military troops or risk his life. He must then deal with both the fallout and benefits of the dissolution of America's military-industrial complex.Sarah's mission is to establish a new world order that is kinder, better and united. As she guides the world through this evolution, President Cummings begins to notice a depth in his own soul that makes him both a better man and a better leader.Sarah remains on Earth for one year to help the world come together, andleaves behind a legacy of hope—a second chance for humankind.
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Immediately on alert, and with as much bravado as he could muster, he stuttered, “What in the hell are you doing here . . . ?” He punched a button on his desk and yelped, “Security!” as loudly as he could, expecting his personal bodyguard, Don Taylor, to rush into the room and usher this intruder out posthaste . . . but Don didn’t come.
Instead, the woman continued to stand in front of him as bright as a satellite in space. Glowing, it seemed.
“You must leave immediately!” he shouted at her, but she appeared unperturbed by his anxiety and did not move. “Now!” he yelled again, this time with more fervor as he pointed toward the door.
When she did not react, he slowly glanced around the room and noted an unnatural stillness. The usual electronic sounds that were part and parcel of day-to-day life—like lights buzzing and clocks ticking—were absent. It was like he was in a vacuum of some sort. He started to realize that he was alone with this woman and that no one was going to save him.
Don’t panic, he told himself, and he calmed down a little. He glanced quickly at her and had the uncomfortable sensation that she was flitting around the room. He looked away, at the door behind her, still hoping Taylor would bust through and usher her out, but nothing happened.
Finally, he managed to muster the words, “Where did you come from . . . ?” and then his tongue tied itself into a knot, and further speech failed him as he felt the full power of her presence.
This was no ordinary woman. She seemed to suck the oxygen from the room, leaving him light-headed, and oddly light-hearted as well. As he felt himself being somehow drawn to her, he could hear his heart beating as if in anticipation of something delightful, though his rational mind told him it was probably just due to surprise and shock. He fought to hide his odd mix of feelings from her by reminding himself that she was an intruder. The truth of the matter, he told himself sternly, is that this woman breached White House security in order to threaten me in the Oval Office.
Guest Post
I am a 72 year-old man who is not happy with how my generation is leaving the world for future generations. I am too old to fix any of humankind’s major problems so I decided to write a book that would put us on a new course that would enable us to solve them all.
To move forward, we have to learn to become at one with our species and, eventually, with all living things on Earth.
Course-correcting humankind will take generations because hatred, intolerance and greed have become deeply ingrained in us over hundreds of thousands of years of evolution.
We formed tribes to help us accumulate and defend resources. Gangs are tribes. Villages are tribes. Countries are tribes. Religions are tribes. Companies are tribes.
Tribes differentiate people. Tribes also cause people to commit atrocities that individuals in those tribes would never commit on their own.
All the while, technologies have grown exponentially while the evolution of human societies proceeds at a snail’s pace, with much backsliding along the way. Weapons of mass destruction proliferate among rogue governments and radical groups.
These are weighty matters and a book that describes what humans would have to do to course correct themselves would be really boring and/or distastefully dystopian.
I decided that the only way to save humankind quickly and in a way that makes for good reading would be to have divine intervention.
This solution posed a few problems for me because I am not particularly religious. I have tried to become religious over the years but I keep stumbling over the fact that the world’s leading religious tribes seem to constantly be warring among themselves.
I decided that this time around God would not send another male prophet to straighten things out because that historically led to the formation another new religious tribe and more conflict.
Rather, God sent Sarah, the embodiment of 40 million female souls that collectively had lived every life and died every death throughout human history.
With god-like powers and an impish persona, Sarah communicates directly to every human being on the planet and soon gets world leaders on track to create a united world at peace.
My co-author, Helen Davies, did a critical edit of the first version of the book and was enthralled by the plot line. We have never met each other but the first time we talked on the phone we went on for 2 ½ hours. Thus began our collaboration.
Over an 18 month period Helen worked to bring life to the manuscript and its characters. After every chapter she would sigh off by saying “I hope you like it”.
Helen and I hope you read our book and we hope you like it.
Kenneth B. Little
Kenneth B. Little is a 72-year-old retired business executive who is unhappy about how the state of the world has deteriorated during his lifetime.
The human population has ballooned from one billion to nearly eight billion, and people have moved off the land into massive cities where they have no ability to survive on their own. Instead, we rely on massive electrical grids energized by power plants largely burning fossil fuel; we’ve developed industrial complexes and global transportation systems that also rely on fossil fuel; we’ve created corporate farms that promote animal cruelty and destroy the soil by overusing chemicals; we’ve decimated our ocean marine life by dragging the ocean floor; we’ve created plastics that pollute land, rivers, lakes and oceans; and, of course, we’ve created nuclear, chemical, biological and cyber weapons that are now in the hands of unstable countries and terrorist organizations.
In short, we are racing headlong into a series of mass extinction events.
At seventy-two, Ken felt motivated to try to create a better world for his grandchildren by writing a fiction book full of non-fiction ideas that could potentially correct many of the world’s problems. Realizing that the only two avenues toward this were themes of divine intervention or mass extinction, he chose divine intervention as the solution, creating a scenario where God could step in to save humankind.
Ken wrote his initial manuscript during the Covid-19 lockdown, a 70,000-word overview that his wife told him read like a textbook. Deciding to see professional help, he engaged Tellwell Publishing to do a critical edit, which was performed by Tellwell editor Helen Davies.
Helen was intrigued by the storyline but, like Ken’s wife, felt it needed a lot of work to develop the characters and make it more engaging. With Tellwell’s blessing, Ken then contracted Helen to do just that. Thus began a most unusual and successful collaboration!
Says Ken:
Helen and I are completely different people. She is a writer, musician, and farmer. I am the grumpy old man who watches European business news when I get up at 3:00 a.m. We live as far apart as possible in Canada. She lives in Victoria on the West Coast, and I live in Fredericton on the East Coast. We have never met, yet we talked for nearly two hours on our first phone conversation. Usually, I never talk for more than five minutes with anybody on the phone. What unites us is that we share a passion for this story, and for the idea of a better, more united world.
During the writing process, Helen routinely sent me edited chapters, one at a time, always with the tagline, “I hope you like it.” I like it very much; the story I wrote that sounded like a textbook now brings tears to my eyes.
God’s Intervention: A Second Chance for Humankind is a story of hope.
We hope you like it.
Kenneth B. Little and Helen Davies
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