My Name is David Cole: Gathering Storms (Volume 2)

Have we met before? If we already know each other then “My name is David Cole” are the last words I spoke to you. You know every-thing I went through to get to the point where I made my declaration that I was going to lead an uprising against evil, the forces of darkness, and Satan himself. You also know that I want you and millions of others to join me. It’s good to see you again. If we are meeting for the first time, you may not be accustomed to people talking about things like the forces of darkness and Satan. Or, if you are, you’re used to closing the book or turning off the television and having them disappear. What if I told you that evil is all around you? What if I told you that it manipulates the world we live in more than you could ever know? What if I told you that you had the power to stop it? My name is David Cole. I am the Seventh Guardian. The Guardians were put on this planet by God to lead the world out of darkness and into the light. We were sent here not just to fight evil but to heal people, to help them find common ground together, to help them put aside their differences in religion, politics, and the other things that divide them. We have powers that have been given to us by God to help in our fight, but we are not superheroes; we are just like you. You have powers too; you just may not know it yet. My story has brought me from a childhood of pain and abuse, through an eye-opening journey of discovery that intro-duced me to the other Guardians — Rado, Deven, Annan, So-phie, Farouk, and Jonathan — to my wife and soul-mate Michelle and our children Scott and Sara, and at the end of my last story a battle against The Seven, a group of demonic spirits that have haunted me much of my life, that ended with a con-fession of a secret that I’d kept deep inside me for years. I have another story to tell but it’s taken me a lot longer to write than I expected. At the end of my last story, I was tired but sure of my conviction that I would lead a charge to wipe evil from the face of the planet. I knew I’d face doubt and op-position. I knew that in a lot of ways the world was broken. I knew that people were continuing to fight and kill each other over whose beliefs were right and whose were wrong. But I also truly believed that if I could just tell people my story and get them to tell me theirs, then slowly but surely I and the other Guardians could bring the world together. I really believed that we could put aside our differences and make heaven here on Earth; a world where we all lived together in peace and harmony. I still believe we can do it. Many say that we will never learn to live together in peace. Others say that we’ll never stop figuring out ways to kill each other. Even more say that we’ll never stop arguing over whose God is the right one. Too many of us sit, waiting for our God to come back and save us so we can go to heaven, thinking that we’re all helpless beings wait-ing for God to pass down their judgment. That’s what the Seven and their master wants us to think; that we can’t help ourselves. But that’s where they are wrong. We are going to save us because God doesn’t need to come back. God never left. God is inside of each and every heart of each and every person on this planet. I’m not asking you to believe that God exists; at least not the God that sits on high and judges us all. I’m not asking you to believe in Christ, Buddha, Muhammad, or anyone else but yourself because to some of us God isn’t a being, he or she is the life force and energy that connects everything on this planet. If we can harness that energy and all work together there is nothing we can’t do. Now my journey continues. I hope you find it worth your time.