The Word Abounds Within Us
A memoir
Here you will find my book, The Word Abounds Within Us, which documents my study of the spiritual realities that gave birth to Christianity.
Dr. Kevin Dann described the work as follows:
Like Moses on Mount Sinai, Jesus on Mount Tabor, and Mohammad on Mount Hira, Josh McLaughlin’s journey “up on the mountain”—that is, across the threshold of the physical world to the supersensible—begins on a physical mountain. Quiet, stark, elemental, mountains are perennially powerful places for us to meet and meditate upon our most essential questions. The answers to Josh’s questions—Who is God? Who are we? Who was Jesus? What are Faith, Grace, and Salvation?—come first from close attention to his own soul movements and processes, then expand out to encompass many others, including Adam in Eden and Jesus at both his conception and during his ministry.
By way of his clear phenomenological method of observation and manner of expression, Josh offers a compelling path to follow him up the mountain. When he writes that “love is the soul embrace of another that aims to unite the other to God,” and reports that he can observe the emanation of bright white light that is the result of deeds of love, our souls quicken instinctively. Locating the human soul physically in heart and lungs, he traces how our blood weaves God into our bodies and souls.
Gifted with the images in this little book, one is not daunted by the promise that we are the agents of not just our own transformation, but of the transformation and completion of everything—the New Heaven and the New Earth—in God. “The Word abounds within us.” Could any more reassuring and inspiring declaration reach our ears and our hearts?
I am pleased to offer this book online to all who are seeking. May the Word abound within each of us!
