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The Chosen Child: The Birth of a Mystic
Paperback
Series: Spiritual
Metaphysical GeneralChristian LivingGeneral Alternative Health
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 6 2025
Pages: 618
Weight: 2.33
Height: 1.25 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
The Chosen Child: The Birth of a Mystic
by Raina Shepard
When tragedy shatters ten-year-old Joshua's world, grief opens a doorway he never asked to step through. In the stunned quiet that follows his mother's death, Joshua becomes aware of a presence that moves beneath the edges of ordinary life-a silent, watching awareness that turns toward him at the moment he feels most alone. It does not speak. It does not touch. But it chooses.
Taken in by Pastor Mike, his mother's trusted friend, Joshua enters a home filled with love, fear, conflicted faith, and the weight of responsibility no child should have to bear. As days blur into nights, Joshua begins sensing things no one else notices-the moment someone's breath shifts toward leaving, the subtle pull of futures unfolding, and the thinning boundary between the living and the dying. The world behind the world is awakening around him, and it refuses to let him slip back into innocence.
Haunted by visions he cannot explain and emotions too big for his small frame, Joshua struggles to understand why he can feel the dying before they pass... and why the unseen seems to feel him in return. Every revelation deepens the burden he carries-one that is shaping him long before he can shape it back. Yet it is through this painful awakening that the origins of a mystic begin to form: a child marked by loss, chosen by something he cannot name, and destined for a path that will demand everything from him.
As Pastor Mike tries to protect Joshua from spiritual forces he barely understands, fear fractures their bond. Love mixes with control. Guidance blurs into pressure. And Joshua learns what every mystic eventually discovers: that calling does not wait for readiness, and gifts born from grief rarely arrive gently.
The Chosen Child: The Birth of a Mystic is a haunting, tender, and deeply human story of a boy standing at the threshold of two worlds. Both heartbreaking and luminous, it explores the cost of spiritual sensitivity, the loneliness of being different, and the strange, quiet beauty of being seen by the unseen. This novel serves as the emotional and spiritual origin story for the Mystic Recovery Series, following Joshua's earliest encounters with the thin places that will shape his life, his identity, and ultimately his destiny.
For readers drawn to mystical realism, trauma-infused spirituality, and emotionally resonant storytelling, The Chosen Child offers an unforgettable journey into the making of a mystic-beginning in the place where innocence ends and purpose begins.
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