I am often asked in social situations” so, what do you do?”
My answer,
I’m a writer, speaker, husband, father and grandfather. A servant as well as an executive.
I have succeeded greatly, and I have failed miserably. I have had much and at times very little. I have raised my hands high in worship and praise to God, cried over my situation and questioned his very existence. I have been close to those who have lost everything, as well as those who have so very much. I have been in the middle of chaos and destruction, and experienced the alternative, true peace and contentment.
I almost lost my life at 7 while riding my bicycle then again at 16 after losing control of the car I was driving. At 27 when a gun was placed at my head while sitting in my car in Houston Texas while simply writing a check, kidnapped at gun point and pushed out of my car while the 2-gun men drove off. At 37 while setting a wellhead on an oilwell drilling rig when the hydraulic system supporting a 10,0000 LB blowout prevent above my head slipped only to immediately repressurize and hold just inches above my head. At 46 during a phone conversation where my speech became jumbled, an MRI discovered a brain tumor the size of a golf ball seated in the left lateral ventricle requiring 9 and one-half hours of surgery. I returned to work in 6 weeks. Now as I begin a new phase of life, in many ways my life is just beginning.