This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.

I thought long and hard before I even imagined writing a book, but people kept telling me to do it out of the blue. I started writing, yet nothing came of it for over ten years—I only reached page 44. My biggest question, which became my real motivation, was: “How can different people from different states keep telling me the same thing? Could they all be wrong?”

In March 2020, everything shut down. I was attending the AFFI mini-convention in Maryland when it was closed by the governor. At that point in my life, God made sure I would write. I was out of excuses and encouraged myself to write the movie-like story of my life.

I have done many one-on-one, premarital, marriage, and pastoral feedback sessions inside and outside the church, and I discovered that many people struggled with problems similar to my own. I see myself as an unorthodox writer and pastor/author who loves the truth and wants to help people. My first passion was becoming a doctor, and I now see that same desire to help others reflected in my work today.

More than half of my life was spent in the Air Force or working full-time for the Department of Defense at the Pentagon. I survived the war act of September 11 (9/11). Yet my story includes a dysfunctional family, chasing women, infidelity, unemployment, lying, stealing, divorce, bad credit, bankruptcy, gambling, and several suicide attempts.

If the truth be told, I never thought I would live past thirty-five. While I felt unworthy, I learned that God had chosen me to live again, to tell my story, and to become the pastor I am today. I was truly a lost soul. Along this path, I found redemption and a second chance at true, unconditional love in the form of Melody.

A love that could only be birthed by God’s grace.

Truly, my soul loves Jesus!