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Treasures
Treasures - by Myron Humble

Published November 23 2024, 276 Pages

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Michael's high school years begin full of hope and no fears. His experience during the summer opens new worlds to him as he discovers he can reach his dream. He sets out to fulfill his dream of flying. His ambition runs into interference as he faces off with bullies and bigots. His mother warns him about laying up treasures on earth and encourages him to seek the Lord, but as he faces down every challenge, his pride grows.

His greatest foe is not from without. Warnings from his mother about pride fall on deaf ears and Michael believes he has no need of religion or God. His pride leads him to make serious mistakes in judgement. His hunger for acceptance from his peers in high school led him to take risks. Michael's high school experience Is far from normal and he falls into great danger from increasingly violent bullies. Finally He comes face to face with the claims of God that he can no longer ignore.


 Treasures Synopsis:

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.”
“Pride goes before destruction…”

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Michael is a youth with dreams of being a pilot. During the summer before he enters Junior high school, he encounters a aerobatic pilot and a flight instructor and is encouraged to learn.

PlaneDuring this summer a black girl, a student from his class and she helps him to pass summer school and awakens him to social issues like racism, and he is troubled by his own prejudices.

For the next two years as he enjoys success in his dream and even causes his peers and the school to address racism among the school staff. He becomes proud and when he causes a local bully to flee the township his ego grows. He even begins a friendship with a girl he admires.

Church

His mother warns him about his pride and urges him to trust in Jesus. But he is too focused on his dream and his own wants, and in his pride, he ignores her. He causes her heartache when he declares he has no need for God and claims he has done fine without him.

 

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His pride leads him to make bad decisions, and he loses everything, his dream, his girl, his friends, and he thinks, his mother’s love.

Pursued by the thugs he thought he had vanquished, ‘the demons he cast out’, return to torment him. Stripped of everything and alone he discovers the greatest Treasure is not on Earth.

 

 

 



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