Hearts of Stone is a Call for Peace and Love
Far too often Americans get so politically correct, sophisticated, and uptight that they miss out on great truths, especially in the spiritual realm. The average-PC American, it seems to me, are so worried about being uncool by believing in or talking about the Christian God that this entire arena escapes their notice.
Those thoughts came to mind when I came across and read a fascinating journal called Hearts of Stone by Kate. The author uses only her last name, probably because she is afraid of being attacked, ridiculed or belittled because she has the audacity to actually admit that God talks to her and she listens.
Hearts of Stone is a journal of about how God started talking to Kate through dreams and how most of these dreams actually come true within a couple of weeks. Thus, they are prophetic dreams which are enough to frighten most politically correct Muppets out of their wits. I really don't understand why people come so quick to judgment on this topic because prophetic dreams were very important to Joseph, Jacob and the pharaohs. Such dreams were so important that the pharaohs had fulltime dream interpreters at their side to explain the significance and meaning of the dreams they had the night before.
In Hearts of Stone Kate explains that it is simply her job to share the dreams with the public at-large and she stresses that it is not her job or intent to change anyone or to persuade anyone to change their believes. She is a dreamer and a prophet, not an evangelist.
Although fascinated by her dreams and the number that came true, I also was fascinated by Kate herself. She is now working as a civilian in Iraq, first as an electrician and now as a project estimator. Before that she worked almost 20 years in robotics for Ford Motor Company. This single mother of three also is a licensed jet engine mechanic. So, you see, she is far from the image of a ?religious nut? who fools herself into thinking God speaks to her. Kate strikes me as a bright, intelligent, multi-talented young mother whom God chooses to speak to and she is smart enough to listen and pay attention.
The book title, Hearts of Stone, does not derive directly from humanity's stone cold hearts but have to do with stone-shaped hearts from the Tigris River. In the book, Kate explains that one day she looked down and found countless of these hearts of stone on the ground. They are all totally different from one another, just like human beings who also have stone hearts and do not seek peace or love their neighbors as God desires.
I enjoyed reading Hearts of Stone and when I finished the last page walked away from this book taking the author seriously. God talks to Kate. But you know what, God indeed talks to most of us ? we just don't hear him.
Emory Daniels
