My life was a wreck. My marriage was on the rocks, my kids hated me, and my relationship with God was only a habit at best. I wanted more but had no idea how to get there. I had reached the bottom and life was just a routine I walked through in order to survive. Then Phyllis and I read a book together, and our lives began to change. The name of the book is unimportant for this blog, but life began to take new shape for me. Within a few short months I began to experience some very real emotional healing, soon followed by physical, scientifically proven, healing! The excitement in me began to build and I couldn’t keep up. Phyllis and I realized if this kind of healing was available, what kind of monsters would we be to keep it to ourselves and Crossing the Bar was birthed. Months later I realized I was living out 2 Corinthians 1:3-4. In the Message translation it says, “All praise to the God and Father of our Master, Jesus the Messiah! Father of all mercy! God of all healing counsel! He comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us.” There isn’t a painful, hellish day from my past that I wouldn’t live all over again if it meant I could reach more people. My desire isn’t just to bring healing to people filled with pain so extreme that it holds them captive, but to watch as God heals them so completely that they then bring that same healing into their personal world. Nothing
is more fulfilling!