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    A Case for Wisdom: A Son’S Story About Reconciling with His Father
    A Case for Wisdom: A Son’S Story About Reconciling with His Father
    A Case for Wisdom: A Son’S Story About Reconciling with His Father
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    A Case for Wisdom: A Son’S Story About Reconciling with His Father

    By Geoffrey Woods

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    Geoffrey Woods is just a boy when his father is diagnosed with cancera disease that not only robs his father of his health, but also changes Geoffreys family dynamics forever. Now an unpredictable man who often subjects his family to outbursts of anger and frustration, Geoffreys father instills a fear in his wife and his children that never goes away. It is not long before Geoffrey commits himself to wholeheartedly hating the man he once loved with all his heart.



    In his poignant story, Geoffrey shares how his relationship with his father became laced with distance, disappointment, and betrayal, causing him to eventually isolate himself from his friends, sports, and the life he once knew. Somehow he survives and accepts God into his hearteven as the distance between Geoffrey and his father grows. As he matures into a young man who is still suffering from his fathers constant betrayal, Geoffrey begins to question everything, the crucial first step of a lengthy journey to eventual forgiveness, healing, and inner-peace.



    A Case for Wisdom describes how a relationship fueled by distrust and distance is ultimately transformed into a loving bond between father and son based on truth, kindness, and, most importantly, unconditional love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 22, 2012
    ISBN9781475949759
    A Case for Wisdom: A Son’S Story About Reconciling with His Father
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    Geoffrey Woods

    Geoffrey Woods holds a bachelor’s degree in exercise physiology and a master’s degree in public health; he currently teaches mathematics at the high school level. He is also a certified life coach and is founder of the Institute of Wisdom and Courage. Geoffrey lives in Sierra Madre, California.

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      A Case for Wisdom - Geoffrey Woods

      Copyright © 2006, 2012 by Geoffrey Woods

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-4973-5 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-4974-2 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-4975-9 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012916911

      iUniverse rev. date: 10/17/2012

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      CHAPTER 1

      ACKNOWLEDGING MY PROBLEMS

      CHAPTER 2

      SEARCHING

      CHAPTER 3

      ACT

      CHAPTER 4

      RECONCILE

      CHAPTER 5

      FREEDOM

      Introduction

      Definition of Wisdom

      Wisdom teaches humans the difference between right and wrong as well as the difference between good and evil. It teaches humans how to engage in good conduct, especially when there is conflict. Wisdom and its principles cause humans to grow in self-control, develop sound judgment, reconcile relationships, and do acts of courage.

      Description of Wisdom

      Wisdom is more beautiful than the sun, and excels every constellation of the stars. Compared with the light, she is found to be superior, for it is succeeded by the night, but against wisdom, evil does not prevail.

      —Wisdom 7:29–30

      In the above verse, beautiful describes wisdom, and its beauty is found in its ability to shed light and clarity to humans and in its power to defeat evil. Evil, or that which is destructive, cannot manipulate wisdom since wisdom confronts the lies of evil by standing steadfastly in the truth. Wisdom never compromises the knowledge of truth, and evil cannot prevail against wisdom within this characteristic.

      How does an individual find wisdom that is powerful enough to confront evil? What exactly is the process? In my experience I have found there are four steps:

      ·   Acknowledge

      ·   Search

      ·   Act

      ·   Reconcile

      The first letter of each word is in bold so you can easily recall these four steps with an acronym (ASAR). My book details each of these steps within the context of explaining my long, painful process of reconciling with my father.

      I have left space in the book for the reader to answer questions. I hope you enjoy the process!

      CHAPTER 1

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      Acknowledging My Problems

      Acknowledge—the first step in gaining wisdom—stands for acknowledging problems. The desire for wisdom starts with the knowledge that there are problems in life that one does not know how to solve. I start my story with my childhood.

      The Setting of My Childhood

      I was born at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, in 1960. I came home from the hospital to 2430 Cross Street in La Crescenta, California. La Crescenta, northwest of the hospital, would be my home for the next eighteen years. The one-story brick house had brown wood trim and hardwood floors. There was a big brick fireplace in the living room; down the hallway, off the living room, were three bedrooms and the big bathroom. The little bathroom was off the kitchen next to the laundry room.

      Due to an expanding family of two boys and then two girls, my parents added a large bedroom above the garage in the late 1960s, which my older brother and I shared. My paternal grandfather built a doghouse in the side yard. This was a great gift since we had several dogs. The biggest, a Saint Bernard named Danny, stood about as tall as I was at the time. The smallest dog we owned was a beagle named Buster. We always had at least one dog. If one dog died or ran away, it didn’t take my dad much time to bring a new one home. My father loved dogs! His love for dogs was a point of contention between my parents; he loved dogs, but my mother didn’t!

      The front of our house was fairly large with a lawn and a driveway that led into the garage. A huge tree shaded a good portion of the small backyard so no grass would grow. My parents eventually built a deck in the backyard that we used during the summer. We always had enough room to play games among ourselves or with the neighborhood children.

      Our street was one block above the main boulevard. The police station was on one end of Foothill Boulevard. Since the police station was located on Briggs Avenue, some people referred to the police as the Briggs Pigs. There was an old stone Episcopal church where the neighborhood kids would ride bikes, play Adam 12 or the Mod Squad, make forts,

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