Hurst, TX, December 29, 2022 –(PR.com)– Jim Van Rite, a retired ordained United Methodist elder who spent ten years as a full-time UMC pastor, has completed his new book, “Through Kingdom Eyes”: a profound discussion that explores how the author came to completely surrender himself to the Lord, and how others can follow suit by seeing things with the eyes of God’s kingdom.
“I started to write this book in my thirties and couldn’t put it together,” writes Van Rite. “I was too much about me in those days, and as I say in the book, I was unable to access my feelings. I had an epiphany moment in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting when I saw in my imagination a little airplane pulling a banner that said Surrender. I had never surrendered entirely, even to God, and this after having been a United Methodist minister for ten years.
“I was frightened at the prospect of losing myself, and I remembered how I had fought that very…
