Wow! I just penned my last words to my first book, Pain Drives Change. I started 45 days ago and didn’t have a clue about how long it would take or when I would finish, but I knew I needed to write it.
47,824 words and an estimated 191 pages later I’m done! I’ve learned a lot in the process of writing my book: Continue reading I Wrote My Book In 45 Days!
On January 13, 1999 I placed my video camera on a tripod and began video journaling the season of my life that transformed me into the man I am today. I had just separated from my wife and moved into a small house in the slums of South Seattle.
I had no idea how much emotional pain I’d be facing in the years to come and I had no idea that I’d need this pain to turn me into the man God created me to be. For some reason I knew that I wanted to immortalize this season of my life through my video journal and so I began. Continue reading Pain Drives Change-I’m almost finished writing my first book!
I just finished writing Chapter 7, “The Pain of Divorce” and I came across some interesting statistics on the divorce rate in America.
It is difficult to say which statistics are fully accurate, but my research indicates that greater than 40% of marriages end in divorce.
According to enrichment journal on the divorce rate in America: Continue reading The Pain of Divorce
I’m writing Chapter 5 called “The Pain of Fatherlessness” and I wanted to share some data that I found at fathers.com.
A study in 2010 by the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that 33% of the children in America live absent their fathers. In 2012 a study by the U.S. Census Bureau indicated that 57.6% of black children, 31.2% of Hispanic children, and 20.7% of white children are living absent their biological fathers. If it were classified as a disease, fatherlessness would be an epidemic worthy of attention as a national emergency. Continue reading The Pain of the Father Void
