{"product_id":"deep-water-michael-maio-9798197026514","title":"Deep Water: When Strong Runs Out, Do Everything In Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eYou've been strong for a long time. Strong for your family. Strong at work. Strong enough to keep the lid on everything you're actually carrying. But what happens when strong runs out?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the book for that moment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeep Water\u003c\/b\u003e is a raw, honest, and deeply personal faith guide for men who are ready to stop performing strength and start living love - the real kind, the costly kind, the kind that 1 Corinthians 16:14 calls \u003ci\u003eagapē.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Maio knows where you are.\u003c\/b\u003e He spent his twenties on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange - the credit cards, the limos, the booze, the drugs, the performance of a life that looked like success from the outside and felt like nothing from the inside. He cursed God. He didn't think anyone could love what he was becoming. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen a stranger on a boardwalk told him about a church. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat happened next - on a Long Beach boardwalk, in a Tuesday night Bible study over the book of Amos, in filthy ocean water on a grey day that turned out to be the best day of his life - is a story about the love that finds you before you're ready, holds you when you have nothing to offer, and transforms you from the inside out. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is for the man who: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Has been carrying things he doesn't talk about\u003cbr\u003e- Has watched his faith go dry without knowing why\u003cbr\u003e- Has loved people from behind a mask for so long he's forgotten who's underneath it\u003cbr\u003e- Is staring down the second half of his life and wondering if this is all there is\u003cbr\u003e- Has been lost and is looking for a way home \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat you'll find inside: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- The meaning of \u003ci\u003eagapē\u003c\/i\u003e - why the Greeks had four words for love and we need to understand all of them\u003cbr\u003e- Why every problem in the Corinthian church (and yours) is really a love problem\u003cbr\u003e- What a man's baptism in dirty ocean water teaches about how God actually shows up\u003cbr\u003e- How forgiveness works when you don't have enough of it on your own\u003cbr\u003e- What it means to trust God completely when the income is gone, the future is unclear, and the fear is loud\u003cbr\u003e- The difference between the bottle that never fills and the living water that does\u003cbr\u003e- Why you're not declining in the second half of your life - you're deepening \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is not a 30-day fix-yourself program.\u003c\/b\u003e It is not generic Christian self-help. It is twelve chapters written by a real man from a boardwalk in Long Beach, New York - a man with two tattoos, fifty guitars, a verse on his wrist, and a story that took fifty years to write. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach chapter ends with a Depth Charge reflection question and a one-sentence prayer - designed for the man who has five minutes and needs something that actually lands. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"My left hand squeezes my guitar and reminds me to love the world. My right hand shakes hands with the world but trusts only God. Love people fully. Trust God completely. Everything I need to know about life is written on my wrists.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhatever you did, it doesn't matter. You're a child of the King. God loves you. He's waiting for you. He's looking down the road. He's going to give you a fattened calf, a ring, sandals, and a squeeze.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGo in. The water is fine.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for men seeking: \u003c\/b\u003e Christian devotional for men faith and purpose after 40 men's spiritual growth Christian self-help devotional for fathers midlife faith men's Bible study spiritual transformation 1 Corinthians 16:14 do everything in love\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Maio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798197026514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d","brand":"Michael Maio","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173918777599,"sku":"9798197026514","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/deep-water-michael-maio-9798197026514","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}