Yesha'yahu: Yahweh is Salvation

by Lucian A. Sperta, Emanuel 'Manny' Tirado (Contributor), Chaim M Galan (Contributor)

human species, and with all the war, starvation, loneliness, addiction, mental illness, murder, abuse of our children, the list can go on and one. I felt immediately this was the right title for this book. This new book, moves away (I hope) from the finger pointing to some degree as I attempt to arrive here as the adult survivor who has been struggling with the forever impact of child abuse. Abuse affects people in many different ways; this is my personal expression of what I continue to deal with on a daily basis. I thank the power of faith to have taken me this far in my journey for inner peace and sanity. In my personal experience I do feel my experience with abuse has left me half dead and half alive. I live in both worlds; abuse has this power to almost literally destroy the sense of self. This has been my experience-half dead-half awake and the pain to have to struggle between the living and the dead. My life has been lived as though I have been a zombie walking, breathing, eating, achieving- merely existing; struggling daily with inner chaotic thoughts and feelings. I try to no longer look back and be angry at those individuals who created so much harm and damage in my life. I make every willingness and hard attempt to live in the present; yet, the feeling of brokenness remains the battle I continue to face I would like to thank all the Unknown artists who shared their vision, their pain, their glory, and their story in art form. I treasured each and every one of them; this is why your work made it into Yesha’yahu.

326 pages, Paperback

First published August 31, 2013