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Light Switch

by Charles Mabey

133 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #01-0353; ISBN 1-55212-951-9; US$19.50, C$21.75, EUR16.00, £11.00

Light Switch is a creation parable for the digital age illustrating how God fell in love and created the universe.

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About the Book As a creation parable for the digital age, LIGHT SWITCH illustrates a fundamental need in a technological world - the need for love to become greater than knowledge. Electricity is changing the human environment as profoundly as the first use of fire thousands of years ago. Through electricity, we now possess an unprecedented knowledge of our world. But this knowledge makes us more vulnerable to our human nature than we have ever been. This vulnerability darkens our vision of the future. When entering a dark room, we reach for the light switch to turn on the light. So, perhaps as knowledge carries us toward an uncertain future, surviving the power of this unprecedented knowledge comes down to turning on the light of God's love.

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About the Author Charles Mabey graduated from Texas Christian University with a Bachelors degree in Secondary Education, then obtained elementary certification from North Texas State (now University of North Texas). His first teaching assignment was in Crystal City, Texas where he taught oral language development to fourth and fifth grade migrant students. Located in South Texas near the Mexican border, Crystal City was a dramatic cultural change for this native of North Texas. He says, "The good people of Crystal City, especially the children, taught me that while there are many differences that distinguish people as unique, the heart of the people is essentially the same." Returning home to his hometown of Fort Worth, Charles fulfilled a dream by working as a photographer. Seeing people through a camera lens, he says, "only confirmed how different, yet the same, we are as people." These two experiences prepared him for the vision that became the inspiration for LIGHT SWITCH. This vision changed his life. He started painting houses, simplified his needs and wants, and began a quest for the truth he eventually found in Jesus. Charles says, "LIGHT SWITCH has been a 25 year labor of love and tears. And while my walk with Jesus will continue forever, this book is now complete."

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Sample Excerpt - The First 12 Pages...

 

Before the Tick Tock
of the Eternal Clock
was the time of Imagination...

 

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when nothing mattered,
when nothing made a difference.

 

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To become something more than nothing,
the Imagination needed to make a difference.

 

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So,
The Imagination had an idea...

 

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imagine a line
without beginning or end
and call it...

 

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the Imaginary Circle.

 

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But the Imaginary Circle
was just a figment of the Imagination...

 

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like a thought without feeling,
an idea without belief,
because...

 

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there was nothing
within the Imaginary Circle.

 

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To make a difference within,
the Imagination imagined
a single point equally spaced
inside the Imaginary Circle
and called it...

 

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the Sole Point.

 

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The Sole Point
made the difference that mattered
and...

 

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Catalogue Information

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