Gary first heard the Lord’s Voice in the desert in 1988 when he was meditating and praying with his college friend, Tom Purkey; during an all-night prayer vigil he began to hear a “Still Small Voice within” and its words were ‘this The Still Small Voice of the Lord and your purpose on Earth is to help others to hear The Still Small Voice of the Lord within themselves”. That is how his direct experience with God began. A few years later when he visited the same location; he heard within from The Still Small Voice to begin to write a book; which he did. It was titled “A Book of Gentleness: Developing a Dialogue With God”. It was published by John Honea Press in 1995. The Still Small Voice has always said, this is a training manual on how to hear God’s Voice and that everyone can hear the Voice of God which speaks constantly, however we must be willing to listen, through silence in order to hear it within ourselves. Gary
This desert experience with God changed Gary’s life in 1988; he was at the time the Transportation Planning & Engineering Director of Clackamas County, Oregon, one of the three major counties in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. Eventually he left his government job to pursue: teaching at Marylhurst University in the Religion & Philosophy Department under Sister Cecilia Ranger; developing a consulting practice on using a Wholistic Approach for Planning & Decision-Making – which included both silence and reflection processes to open up workplace conflicts to inspiration from The Still Small Voice in the workplace. Through this process he wrote – “Workplace Spirituality – Developing a Wholistic Approach to Planning & Decision-Marking” and the 1989 Nobel Peace Laureate read the manuscript and wrote a Foreword endorsing the approach and Gary’s spirituality.
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