My Pilgrimage with God
Edition: First
Publisher: W. Berg Press; PO Box 6060, Suffolk, VA 23433 - USA
Published: 2001
Place of publication: United States
Number of pages: 256
First sentence: Acknowledgements

My Pilgrimage with God is an accumulation of my spiritual messages that I had sent during the past two years to my Christian brothers and sisters from around the world.  Inspiration to write on a particular subject comes from the Holy Spirit to whom I give all the credit for wisdom and knowledge.  Many believers, too numerous to mention, had placed a seed into me that required further study.  I shared my spiritual understanding in my weekly messages.
First of all I want to thank all those believers in Christ that have sent me personal testimonies and shared their faith with me.  I thank God for their support and encouragement.  The Apostle Paul said "… encourage one another and build each other up …" (1 Thessalonians 4:11)   You have been a great help and inspiration to me.
I want to express my thanks and deepest appreciation to Richard "Dick" Elliott for volunteering his talent. Dick contributed all the wonderful, spiritual drawings in my book.  Dick is a renowned artist who has drawn and painted many pieces of artwork in Virginia, Wyoming and Montana.  He retired from the US Army and now maintains a studio in Yorktown, Virginia.  Dick is a faithful believer and elder in our church.  I thank him for his valuable contributions to my book.
I also want to thank Donald "Don" Wolpert for volunteering to edit the book and give technical advice.  Don is an old friend of mine and we have worshiped together on many occasions.  As I was looking for an editor to proof read my book, Don spoke up and said, "I am glad to do it."  Don is retired from the US Air Force and has been an adjunct professor with Saint Leo College.  I must say, when you do God's work help is on the way.  Thank you, Don, for the difficult job of proof-reading my work.
At last I want to thank my wife, Heide, for her help and understanding.  My wife is my first source for review.  Each week she reads my spiritual messages and suggests clarifications and additions.  I thank God for having given me a Christian wife who supports my ministry.  Patiently, Heide has stood by while I spent many hours in meditation and on the computer writing the messages that the Holy Spirit inspired.  Thank you, my dear wife, for being so understanding and helpful.

Dear GOD, I thank You for entrusting me with this important work to spread Your message.
I thank You for supplying all the inspiration.
I thank You for all the resources and support.
I thank You for all the brothers and sisters that helped and guided me along the way.
May Your message be received in faith and strengthen those in need.
Dear GOD, may Your Word be our guidance from now until You return.
I thank You for all Your blessings You have bestowed upon me and my family.
Amen!
Description: Introduction

1998 was a very traumatic year for me.  I was notified in February that I had throat cancer and needed radiation treatment to be followed by neck surgery.  In my desperation I turned to God and asked Him for help and strength.  Let me tell you the good news: I have been healed and I am cancer free.  I thank God for His healing power.
My encounter with cancer and going through the healing process has brought me closer to God.  My first inclination after recovering from surgery was to ask myself what could I do to show my appreciation to God?  With help and guidance from my church elders, I found spiritual rewards.  I want to share with you my journey and I hope it brings strength to your life as it has done for me.  The following is a collection from my weekly spiritual mailings that I have sent to selected Christian brothers and sisters.  I suggest that you meditate after reading each topic and let the Holy Spirit speak to you.  Please feel free to comment or to provide your own testimony by e-mail to WulfBerg@att.net
To make this book a personal experience for you, I have set aside blank pages titled Spiritual Notes.  As you meditate with God, use these spaces to capture what the Holy Spirit has revealed to you personally.  We all tend to hasten through each new day and forget what we learned the day before.  May God guide you and give you wisdom that leads to a new commitment of spiritual growth.
Notes: About the Author

I, WULF BERG, was born in Cologne, Germany.  I was seven years old at the end of World War II.  My memories from the war are limited to a few pleasant and a few traumatic experiences.  Two years after the war, I was selected to live with Swedish foster parents for one year.  This spared me from many hardships and built a lifelong friendship with Sweden.  In 1956, I emigrated to the United States.  Since military obligation was a must in those days, I soon enlisted in the US Air Force.  My first assignment was to Japan despite the fact that I had volunteered for Germany.  Later assignments brought me tours to Germany.  It was there that I married Heide, my wife.  We have two children Cornelia Grace, born in Bitburg, Germany, and Roland David born in Laredo, Texas.
In 1978, I retired from military service.  I attended Christopher Newport University and received a bachelor degree in information science.  For the next fifteen years, the Norfolk Naval shipyard was my employer.  During my government career, I had many opportunities to travel in America and in many foreign countries.  Since my first visit to Sweden at the age of nine, I have traveled to Asia, Australia and all the countries of Europe.  This has given me a great appreciation for different cultures and their surroundings.
In 1996 I published my first book titled US 50 Coast to Coast.  It is a documentary of a journey across America from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
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