Even Though I Didn't Know It: God Was There (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798197792440)

Where was God when you were going through it?

That's the question this book answers.

Growing up in the slums of North Philadelphia with two drug-addicted parents, nine siblings, and no stability to speak of, the odds were already stacked against him before he ever had a chance to understand what the odds even meant. Then came the fire. The shelter. The mother who disappeared. The foster home that became a place of abuse and horror. The group homes. The running. And finally - at just fifteen years old - a decision so wrong, so devastating, that it landed him in a cell at sixteen years old with a sentence of fifteen to thirty years.

By every measure, his story was over before it started.

But God wasn't finished.

Even Though I Didn't Know It: God Was There is a raw, unflinching, deeply honest account of one man's journey from the streets of North Philly to a prison cell - and from a prison cell to the most important discovery of his life. It is the story of a God who was present in every chaotic, painful, seemingly God-forsaken moment, even when the man living those moments had no idea He was there.

This is not a polished, cleaned-up testimony. There is no pretending here. This book tells the truth about what brokenness actually looks like, what survival mode actually costs, and what real transformation - slow, messy, daily, hard-won transformation - actually requires.

If you have ever felt too far gone for God to reach you, this book is for you.

If you have ever looked at your life and wondered where God was in any of it, this book is for you.

If you have ever needed proof that mercy is real and available to anyone - anyone - this book is for you.

He survived seventeen years. He walked out changed. And now he has one message for everybody who is still in the middle of their story:

God was there then. He is here now. And He is not finished with you either.