The Way The Truth and The Life - Softcover

Mullen, Mickey R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552127745 ISBN 13: 9781552127742

Publisher: Trafford Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

A fast paced autobiography from World War II to the present. From living on a farm as a preachers kid with most all the abuses, to overcoming them with the Lord's help.

About this title

About the Author

This book is about beatings, molestation, drunkeness, car wrecks, sex and living to the limits. A humorous account of a homemade trailer, farm, and dad as a preacher; four years following construction jobs, divorce, high school graduation, 8 years in the Navy with honors, a biblical conversion and receiving the Holy Ghost similar to the way Jesus received it. Carpenter vocational school, union carpenter, buying real estate for remodelling to rent or sell. Taking care of mom in her old age.

The author addresses issues such as conviction, conversion, Holy Ghost, evolution, Trinity, idols, devotion to whom, prayer, faults doctrine, etc..

The author is not associated with any Church or religion nor does he attend, did Jesus?

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Chapter One

I was born on September 20, 1937, in Laramie, Wyoming, descended from Irish ancestors, as well as the Cherokee Indians who had marched on the "Trail of Tears." The Cherokees were forced to march from the Carolina, on the East Coast, to Oklahoma.

My Dad, Mike, got his first good job working on the railroad. Living in a homemade trailer built on a truck frame, it was about 16 feet long, with a wood or coal stove for heat and cooking. With one brother, Paul, seven years older, and a sister, Sis (Margarita), five years older, there was very little room to move around. Anyone that wants to go back to the "good old days" doesn't know what they're talking about. Paul said that he lived in the trailer four years. Sis must have lived in it for two years. You have heard of trailer trash - well, we lived in a trashy trailer.

The family told me that before they arrived in Laramie, they had gone to Kansas "to follow the harvest." Families used to work in the wheat fields when the wheat was ready to harvest. I was told that the grasshoppers liked the linseed oil that Dad put on the canvas, "the siding," and ate holes in it.

With not much of a car, Dad came upon this hill that was too steep for the car to pull the trailer up. Dad found a brick and told Paul that when he popped the clutch, to move the brick up behind the wheel - at least once Paul got his fingers pinched between the brick and the tire.

After the Kansas escapade, my family went to Laramie. It was one of Paul's jobs to pull his wagon along the railroad track and put coal in it that had "accidentally" fallen off the train.

When the time came for me to be born, Mom went to a house in the stock yards where the midwife lived. The morning I was born, Dad came in shortly afterward and found me laying on a bed with no blanket over me. Outside a winter snow storm was raging. I got an ear infection, and the doctor lanced it. It was a family joke, since I had freckles, to say that "the cow blew bran in my face" when I was born in the stock yards....

Edition details

• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1552127745
• ISBN 13: 9781552127742
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102