An Invitation to the Reader
There are books that entertain, books that instruct, and books that pass through the mind like wind through a field; felt for a moment, then gone.
This is not one of those books.
Embracing Love's Light: A Guide to Living a New Life is not simply meant to be read. It is meant to be remembered. Not remembered in the traditional sense, as facts or stories, but in the way one remembers a dream they were never told, a place they've never been, or a truth they've always known but forgot how to name.
If you are holding this book, know this: You were called.
Not by accident. Not by marketing. But by something older, quieter, and more alive than any intention. You were called by the Whisper of Light.
That whisper may have first stirred in you as a child, when the world still shimmered with wonder. Or it may have come more recently, as an ache beneath the noise of modern life. A sense that something is missing. Not from your circumstances, but from the depth of your being.
Have you ever:
Awakened from a dream that felt truer than waking?
Been moved to tears by a moment you couldn't explain?
Looked at a stranger and sensed you'd met before?
Longed for a kind of beauty, wisdom, or love that this world seems only to hint at?
These are not oddities. They are messages.
The following guide to Embracing Love's Light is to aid you in remembering what they mean.
You will find in these pages:
Poetic visions wrapped in prose
Reflections to stir your inner world
Invitations to listen beneath the silence
A map drawn not on paper, but in the inner spirit
Above all, you will find yourself; in glimpses, in echoes, in the soft pull of a thread too familiar to ignore.
This is not the beginning of your journey. It is the moment you pause and realize you've been walking it all along.
So take a breath.
Set aside certainty.
Light a candle if you wish.
And open the door.
The whisper has already begun.
Jon M. Fox is a writer of experimental fiction, non-fiction and poetry. His writing has appeared in such diverse publications as An Indigenous Message on Water, Dialogo, Night to Dawn Magazine, Poets But Us: Wordsmiths' Journal And Magazine, and Wellerism. He is also the author of several novels and story collections. His fictional writing and poetry frequently focuses on the use of magical realism, largely stemming from his Yaqui Native American indigenous heritage and life experiences. When he isn't reading or writing, he's busy with various projects in the Philippines, and sharing his time with his wonderful wife and family.
