On top of the world

The energy in the room was electric. Friends and family had come from miles to celebrate.

I had graduated from college!

When the phone rang I was standing by my fiancee, my parents, and Morrie Lanning (the mayor Moorhead at that time). It was the hiring manager from Microsoft. She was calling to offer me a job!

Out of over 2,000 resumes and hundreds of people interviewed, I was one of five people hired!

I thought that life couldn’t get any better.

Everything was falling into place.

I had it all figured out and was on my way.

Of course, as some of you know, it didn’t work out the way I planned. Fast forward 17 years later and…

I was fired from the job and escorted out of the building my last day.
The relationship with my fiancee ended.
A banner ad changed my life.
A morning of prayer put me on a new path.
My kidneys were failing.
God gave me unshakeable faith.
I cried (many times).
A leap of faith to move back to the USA.
I ran a family business and left it five years later (one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done).
I started a new business.
God blessed me with three girls.
I’ve been happily married for 13 years.
Many countless miracles.

If you’d like to join me on this journey, I am going to focus in the coming weeks and months to write bits of the story. It has been bubbling up the past several months and it’s time.