The Journey
By Sgt. Intel. Brandi, USMC
Never Retired
Table of Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Section One: The Journey
The Journey Defined
Surrender is not in Our Creed
Improvise, Overcome and Adapt
Take Down the Concertina Wire, but be Ready for Battle
All you Want is a Thank You Away
The Path Winds Uphill all the Way
The Arena or the Stands: do you have a seat?
Look Up! Nothin’s Droppin’ Out of the Sky.
The Yellow Brick Path, or the Bed of Thorns
No Quitters Allowed in My Fire Team
Living Truth is Living Life
Feel your way through life
Section Two: God, Religion and Philosophy
Consider the Prime Source
Faith is What? Living in Faith?
A Knuckle-Dragger’s View on Organized Religion
- Christianity
- Islam
- Buddhism
Heaven and Hell, Good and Evil, That be You!
God Doesn’t Sweat the Little Things, He Loves you Anyway
Conceived in Perfection
Talking to the “Commander and Chief”, God
God is on The Line, Don’t Hang Up!
Section Three: What Goes Around Comes Around
There’s No Such Thing as Coincidence
What Goes Around, Comes Around
Get Off the Wheel, it Doesn’t Hurt (in the right place?)
The Elysian Fields or Fly Paradise
Trial By Fire or Purpose for Life?
Section Four: Inner Peace
Love and Hate: Life or the Living Dead
Inner Peace or Pissed off
Hopeless or Happy, You Choose
A Few Easy Steps and You’re On The Way
You Can’t Hold on To Time, Don’t Try
When in Doubt, Go for the Gut
Section Five: The Knowing
Light Workers or Dark Workers, Who be you?
To “Know Thyself” is not an X-Ray or a Colonoscopy
The “Knowing” is a Gift, so Unwrap it!
Section Six: If You Don’t Ask, It Don’t Come (Manifesting)
Manifesting is a Refrigerator Away
Your Desires are God’s Desires
Ask Once, and It Is Given
Desire is not Desperation
Gratitude is the Attitude!
Section Seven: Saints Among Us
Jesus
Mohammad
Gautama Siddhartha, the Buddha
Gandhi
Peace Pilgrim
Mandela
Martin Luther King
Section Eight: Respect
Living Souls: How Many Legs Do They Have?
Self Respect
Gaya is Our Gal, Buy Her Flowers
Honor or Dishonor, Strength of our Youth Today
Our Country is not Contrary
The Warrior Citizen
Peace Makers and Warriors, a Good Team
