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About The Book
What if the struggles you wish away are the very places God is quietly at work?
In Once Upon a Time, Volume Three, award-winning author and clinical psychologist Samuel L. Blumenthal, PhD, invites readers into ten richly layered short stories that explore the hidden terrain of the human heart. Spanning contemporary settings, historical moments, and imagined futures, these stories are united by a single redemptive thread: God’s patient, persistent work in lives shaped by loss, fear, longing, and unfinished faith.
Written with literary depth and spiritual insight, this collection avoids easy answers and sentimental resolutions. Instead, Blumenthal offers honest portraits of men and women wrestling with themselves, their pasts, and the quiet voice of grace calling them forward. Each story gently reveals how grace leads to awareness, awareness opens the door to repentance, repentance allows freedom, freedom prompts gratitude, and gratitude and the peace that accompanies it look back and see only God’s grace from beginning to end.
For readers who sense there is more to life than what they can see and long for faith that engages both mind and soul, these stories offer hope, clarity, and a reminder that the way home is often closer than we think.
About The Author
Samuel L. Blumenthal, Ph.D
Samuel Blumenthal, Ph.D. is a retired clinical psychologist who grew up in a Reform Jewish home in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he still resides. The proud father of three grown sons and two daughters-in-law, he has five grandchildren. After coming to faith in Christ at forty-five, he looks for every opportunity to speak and write about the God who pursued him and lovingly carried him back home. Once Upon a Time: A Collection of Short Stories for Those Trying to Find Their Way Home is his first book.
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“Stories have always been about us, a mirror in which we can see ourselves—our hopes and dreams, but also our greatest dilemmas.” In Once Upon a Time: A Collection of Short Stories for Those Trying to Find Their Way Home, Volume Two, retired clinical psychologist Samuel L. Blumenthal, Ph.D. once again illustrates gospel truths through story and the lens of God’s perfect love.
Sam Blumenthal came to faith in Christ in mid-life, after growing up in a Reform Jewish home in the South. His thirty years as a psychoanalytically-oriented psychologist gives him a unique perspective on the inner workings of the mind and heart. He says, “Since the dawn of man, stories have been pregnant with meaning, much of which has gone unnoticed. But if you are willing to slow down and listen more closely, stories will meet you in the very places you need them and guide you home where you will be healthy and whole.”
The award-winning author and fellow traveler presents stories to touch hearts and remind us of just how much God desires to be present in our lives. These stories offer us courage to look deeper within ourselves to learn why we think and feel as we do, why we struggle as we do, and what can truly help and redeem us and enable us to find our way home.
Once Upon a Time: A Collection of Short Stories for Those Trying to Find Their Way Home
About The Book
“Stories have always been about us, a mirror in which we can see ourselves—our hopes and dreams, but also our greatest dilemmas.” In Once Upon a Time: A Collection of Short Stories for Those Trying to Find Their Way Home, retired clinical psychologist Samuel L. Blumenthal, Ph.D. illustrates gospel truths on the themes of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration, all of which come into clearer focus through the lens of God’s perfect love.
Sam Blumenthal came to faith in Christ in mid-life, after growing up in a Reform Jewish home in the South. His thirty years as a psychoanalytically-oriented psychologist gives him a unique perspective on the inner workings of the mind and heart. He says, “Since the dawn of man, stories have been pregnant with meaning, much of which has gone unnoticed. But if you are willing to slow down and listen more closely, stories will meet you in the very places you need them and guide you home where you will be healthy and whole.”
He presents stories to touch hearts and remind us of just how much God desires to be present in our lives. These stories offer us courage to look deeper within ourselves to learn why we think and feel as we do, why we struggle as we do, and what can truly help and redeem us and enable us to find our way home.