Love's Eternal Wager (a Really Good Man)

Would you wager a lifetime of commitment for a chance at realizing eternal love? LOVE'S ETERNAL WAGER (A Really Good Man) tells the story of just such a commitment. It spans the entire lifetime of Michael Benjamin Golden from the moment of his conception up until his death at the age of 87. Born into a loving family in PART I, Michael experiences a time of innocence as his life begins to take shape. Growing up in the Jewish faith, he develops a special bond with his grandfather which culminates with Michael becoming a man at the age of thirteen on the day of his Bar Mitzvah. As he matures into a young man in Part II, it is a time in Michael's life when all of his dreams come true. Having become engaged to the love of his life, Michael's most fervent wish is about to be fulfilled. Then on the day before he is to be married in Part III, the reality of Michael's life becomes almost more than he can bear. He begins to question God, religion, and even his own existence. To seek answers, Michael embarks on a quest to determine the true meaning of life. As he grows older in Part IV, Michael awakens to the fact that his life can still have purpose. After a long storied career, and with the love of his family, Michael comes full circle and his life concludes in faith and hope.Michael Benjamin Golden's story is profoundly heartfelt as he strives to do the right thing at every stage of his life. As life's unpredictable circumstances continue to confront him, Michael remains introspective and copes with them as best he can throughout the totality of his lifetime. During moments of considerable insecurity and extraordinary highs and lows, Michael perseveres and remains true to himself. Never willing to compromise his inherent values, Michael is somehow able to find the strength of character to maintain throughout his entire lifetime a keen sense of right and wrong and an unwavering moral compass. Though far from being a perfect person, it is a certainty that the reader will come away from this story with a feeling of affirmation for this book's underlying theme: that Michael Benjamin Golden is indeed a really good man who is worthy of eternal love.