I used to live life how I wanted by doing what I wanted when I wanted to. I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord & Savior April 3rd, 1999, and had a radical encounter with the Holy Spirit August 17th, 2021. Today I’m a disciple of Jesus Christ, a Youth & Associate Pastor who has a heart for humanity to get an understanding of the unconditional love of God, and be set free from the bondage of this world.

enesis 50:20 — "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done." Whatever was meant to destroy you became the qualification for your calling. The diagnosis qualified you. The bankruptcy qualified you. The broken marriage qualified you. The addiction you came out of qualified you. God wastes nothing. Not one day of your pain. Now go build something with it.

Do not skip this one. Write the first paragraph of your book this weekend. Not the whole chapter. Not the outline. Just the first paragraph. Start with the moment everything changed. Put yourself back in that room, that hospital, that car, that conversation. Describe what you saw. What you felt. What you thought was about to happen. That paragraph is the door your reader walks through. Make it real. Post it here when you write it. Even a rough draft. The community will celebrate it with you.

I died on a table. They brought me back. And when I woke up, God did not say rest. He said build. If God brought you through something — a diagnosis, a loss, a failure, a dark season — He did not do it just for you. He did it so you could reach back and pull someone else through. That is what AUTONATE is. A community of people who stopped letting their pain sit idle and started letting it produce. Welcome to the family. Let's get to work.