Foreword:
The first time I took cough medicine by the handful was right around the year 2000. I was young, of good family, stable mind and body, but none of that would withstand the pure power of peer pressure. I say peer pressure because it is a concept you all are familiar with, but really what was so hard about saying, “NO.” was my yearning to be loved. Not that I was, in any way, devoid of a loving family in my past, I wasn’t, but the longing for a different kind of love. The kind of love that said, “I believe in you.”
Granted, if you beg your parents to believe in the fact that you will grow up to be a ninja, it is their sole responsibility to change your one-track mind. Finding anyone to stand up to my standards of belief was going to be the hardest journey I ever set out on. That journey would lead me on a path that wound it’s way through the deepest caverns of fear and around the highest peaks of hope, eventually landing me in a spine tingling, hair-raising, freezing cold mud puddle of truth.
At first I saw all the bad things that happened to me as ‘just my luck’ and then, one day, I remembered what someone had told me.
“If you just learn to laugh at it, then it has no power over you” Boy, I wish I would have learned that lesson a long time ago!
In a judgemental world I found this one statement would change my life forever if I simply applied it accordingly. Any time someone would say something to me, the first thing I would do is take it as a joke, and then work from there. It would stop me from negatively affecting my life with an attitude. That, coupled with truth and a whole lot of help from God, is what resulted in this book. So, get ready to laugh a lot, and maybe cry a little as you settle in and join me on my journey while writing:
God’s A TRIP!