Crushed by Mercy: How the Lord Made a Christian Out of Me (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781966741374)

At eleven years old, Rick Thomas sat in an empty lake bed and asked God, whom he did not know, what he was on earth for. The answer took fifty-six years to unfold, and most of it came through losing things he thought he could not live without. A wife. Two children. A job. A future. A reputation. Four years in a trailer in the woods, picking up aluminum cans on country roads to buy hamburgers. Crushed by Mercy is the story of how the Lord answered an eleven-year-old's prayer by killing the man who prayed it, so the man could finally live.