Finding My Way to God

By Herbert A. Baumgard

Some people receive a call to serve God at a very early age. Others live many decades of their life before they turn to religion and to God. Idealistic as the author was from his youth, he lived the life of an average American boy and young man until the events of his life turned him in the direction of becoming a rabbi. Some of these experiences, spelled out in brief vignettes, are included in this volume, the death of his grandfather when he was five years old, a violent antisemitic confrontation at age eight, an interracial experience on a trolley car in 1932, in Virginia. Other vignettes describe facing death by a drunken soldier, a physical assault by a colonel angered by his teaching of racial equality as an Information and Education Specialist in the Army, a mystical encounter with nature, preaching in a Baptist church as an assistant to a Jewish Chaplain in World War II. The range of incidents is wide indeed. The reader is carried through five years of college, including a year in law school (abruptly halted by Pearl Harbor) and through four years in the U.S. Army. The reader will identify with the searchings of the young boy and young man for a life of purpose. These searchings ultimately led him to choose a lifetime of service to God.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881257818
• ISBN13: 9780881257816
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Ktav Pub & Distributors Inc
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"