My Improbable Journey
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There’s a place that’s somewhere between midnight and eternity that you may think you will never have to go—a place that tests our faith and where we come to terms with our lives and what is to come. It can be very fearful or a place where you can know all is well. There is a place of uncertainty that only God knows the outcome. I know there are people somewhere who are sitting in the midnight. I just want to share my life story about how my midnight turned into a new day.
I’m sure we have all wondered how we would react when faced with the possibility of death. How would we react? How would our loved ones react? In March of 2005, I personally found out the answer to this question when I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. During that most difficult time of my life, I felt the presence of God so strong. It’s just hard to explain. I just wanted to be a light for Him throughout all of this. If it was to be my time to leave this world, then to be absent from the body was to be present with the Lord.
Our family was hit with something that we would never have expected. Overall, our family has been very healthy. My wife and I have been married for twenty-four years. We have faced many challenging times as all married couples have done, but we just didn’t expect this at all. We got married, planned our lives for having a family, watching them grow, and doing everything to make it possible for them to be successful and happy, and then grow old together.
If it hadn’t been for God’s mercy and grace, where would we be today? God has been so very good to me and my family that I could never express to him just how thankful I am. If it hadn’t been for our family, including church families, being so supportive during this time with all their visits, kind words, prayers, and gifts, it would have been so very difficult. We heard that people were praying for us from
We were very blessed with the wonderful staff members at
For all of this, I am so blessed, and I want to share my story of just how wonderful God is and how He can use so many people to fulfill his purpose for our lives and touch the lives of others. How that He arranges things so that you know that it had to be Him and no one or nothing else. If it hadn’t been for this experience, we would not have been introduced to so many wonderful people, made new friends, heard other’s testimonies of what they have been through, and gotten calls from others going through the same situation that wants us to pray for them.
Here is my story. My wish is that this will in some way encourage you and lift your faith.
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About the Book
At the first of this book I talk about my dad’s workhorses running away. I was borne in a century with many changes. I feel really fortunate to have ridden in my dad’s horse and wagon as a little boy and educated out in the field the few times I tried to plow the corn with the horses. The horses always made a quick study of who had a hold of the plow. I’m also fortunate to live in the jet and space age where surgeons have the knowledge to remove brain tumors. In life as in the corn field you have to grab the reins and hold on to the plow and not quit until you reach the end of the row. We need not to look back where we were plowing, but forward to what wonders that God and this life hold.
About the Author
Being a survivor of a baseball-sized brain tumor, his cup runneth over at the miraculous power experienced during the most difficult days of his life. His purpose is to share his story in a way of inspiration and encouragement no matter how difficult your trial may be, there is hope and source of strength that only comes from faith in God and the devoted love of others to get you through. Knowing this he could say, “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.” No matter the outcome, he felt he would be a winner either way. God’s plan was for him to stay here longer and his story will tell you why.