Where was God?

About the Book

This is a true story of one man’s life—from a small child to an adult man. It is about his lifetime of trauma, heartbreak, persecution, hardships, and many other afflictions that no person should have to endure. He lived through racism, bullying, loneliness, physical abuse, homelessness, four possible life-ending illnesses, and three life-saving surgeries. After undergoing brain surgery in 1981 at the age of twenty-one, he was given only one year to live—three at the max—but didn’t die. This story is about having to live an entire life with the notion that death could come at any moment. All this was compounded by living every day with life’s common ups and downs. Religion was abandoned but then refound. He was married, raised a family, had a career, then got divorced twice, lost his job, lost everything, and became homeless. Having endured through it all, with faith, with perseverance, and with many miracles in between, he was able to write this book. He hopes to be able to help anyone who may be struggling with a similar fate and provide them the tools to carry on from the examples of his life. This is his true life story, so help him God.

About the Author

My name is Chris; born in 1960 in beautiful Long Beach, California. I grew up in the suburbs of Huntington Beach, California. I have been married and had four children that have given me two grandchildren. My life has been anything but easy; growing up with and enduring through much racism and bullying in my youth. I had wanted to grow up and be very successful in my life. I had dreams, goals, and a plan for my life. However, over the years i slowly learned that God had a completely different life plan laid out for me. It lead to an alteration of my hopes and dreams. Still, through all of my afflictions i remained steadfast and true in my belief in God. It is that love of God and my firm belief in Him that i truly believe has carried me to this point in my life. I fought hard to live the life that i wanted so badly to live, but in the end i realized that God’s plan for me supersedes my ideas of what i want. So no matter how hard i fought against it at times i realized that faith in Him and perseverance through my hardships would carry me through to happiness, eventually.