About the author:
When I was young, I grew up in a Pentecostal home. My father was a preacher. I always had a love for God. I remember as a boy seeing a large group of patched-out club members and remember being mesmerized by the sight and sound of all those machines. Back then, everybody rode a chopper.
I remember running to the corner drug store and buying chopper magazines, trading cards, not to mention the hours of rolling my toy motorcycles on my make-believe road on my bed. My favorite was a yellow chopper that is still in my curio cabinet today. Back in the day, I dreamed of growing up and owning my own bike and being out on the open highway. I recall wanting to have a tattoo and being up close to anyone who had one.
I would stare at my uncle’s and remember wanting to touch it. I would cover myself with Cracker Jack tattoos or draw on my arms with an ink pen trying to convince the neighbor kids they were real. When I became a young man, I bought an old iron head Harley and remember riding past the kids hanging out on the town square. Sometimes they would yell out to me and say, “Hey, Harley Man.” I would pull over and eventually became friends with them. That would have never happened without that motorcycle. Since that time, I have noticed in my travels, I can be at the gas station or a Mom and Pop Diner and an old-timer will come up to me and say, “I had one back in the day.”
I definitely learned early on what a ministry tool a motorcycle can be. Like many people, I had a time in my life where I turned away from God and spent many wasted years in sin playing cards with the devil. I always came up the loser. With a constant love of Jesus and the Holy Spirit, I came back to him and will never look back again.
I felt compelled to create a fictional character to follow in a story format to show others how we are all struggling through life. We all encounter hard times such as a loss, filling of hurt, rejection, etc. We all use coping mechanisms to just get through. Hopefully, this book will show everyone how much we all need to know God by using a motorcycle as a platform for ministry.
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