Christmas celebrates Christ

Yesterday I went and had my X Ray shots in the spine. The doctor said it wouldn’t hurt.

OUCH!

Today my back feels about the same as it did before the shots, but I suppose it takes a while to kick in. I wanted to go hunting this morning, but think I might just skip it and try to get some more rest. Yesterday I did something I rarely do, I slept most all day long and yet I still feel tired this morning.

A few of you have been writing about my book sales. Apparently when I expressed disappointment a couple of weeks in WFTD that some folks that I thought might buy the book didn’t, a few of you read through the lines and took that to mean that sales were dismal and that I’m depressed about it. Actually nothing could be further from the truth. Sales are what I expected them to be at this stage for the amount of marketing that I have done, which amounts to merely announcing it was now available via WFTD and that’s it. One thing I’ve learned is that I NEVER receive more out of something than I put into it, and if I want this book to be read where it has a chance to reach others for Christ, I have to roll up my sleeves and go to WORK!

Actually I’m very optimistic about the book and have already started moving forward with a more robust marketing plan this week and I fully expect, (KNOW), that sales will increase substantially when I do. One thing I’m exceedingly happy about is that I have not received the first negative comment about the book so far from any who have read it. Just the opposite, many have taken the time to write and tell me how much you enjoyed it and how well written and powerful it is. One man told me he was 66 years old and cried several times during the reading. I’m only 64 but I did the same thing when I wrote it, and later when I read it again. My wife blubbers every time she picks it up, but she’s a female. When MEN cry I know that it must be moving and profound.

(All you womens-lippers, no letters please. I already know I’m a male chauvinist pig in the worst order and in fact revel in being one. Your letters will not change anything; only God can change me now, so if you want to vent please do so to Him as you pray for me.)

Not receiving any bad comments about the book in itself is absolutely amazing to me because I get bad reviews all of the time for WFTD, (partially because of the occasional antagonistic comments that I make like the foregoing). I take the criticism in stride most of the time unless I’m overly sensitive or down that day. I realize everyone does not think alike nor do we agree with each other 100% of the time including me, and that’s a good thing, because we would all be bored silly with each other.

I did not write the book to make money. Currently I’m giving away about three books for every sale. I realize the economy has tanked and many of you are on exceedingly tight budgets. If you cannot currently afford the book and would like to read it, then please write me and I’ll send you a copy free of charge as my Christmas gift to you. If you are too proud to do that, I have finished the less expensive e-Book version and am in the process this week of putting it on Amazon for Kindle, and also Barnes and Noble for the Nook, Google and other e-Book version distributors, (assuming I will live through cutting through all of their administrative red tape). And I’m getting ready to print the paperback version. So soon practically anyone can receive a copy of this nearly 500 page book either for FREE, $9.95 for e-Book, $12.95 for paperback, or $24.95 for hardbound. When you finish it please give it to someone you know who will benefit and it will see double duty.

Why buy the book? After all hardly any of you ever lived a life like mine. ALL of you have a relative or know someone who has a son, daughter or in fact maybe even you yourself are struggling with adversity and possibly some type of addiction. My book is about not only how to overcome adversity and addictions but in fact how to triumph over them. It can be done folks. I have a highly addictive personality and not many have faced more adversity than me and not many were so addicted to so many things including drugs, alcohol, violence, nicotine, money, power, and other things, but I found a way to overcome them all. I’m nobody special, (just ask my wife, kids, disenchanted WFTD readers, my dog Cooper, or my horse Dusty).

But God is VERY special and Jesus Christ can change anyone’s life. There is no better time to give away a book that might turn someone to Christ than at Christmas when we celebrate His birth. If not my book, then someone elses. We can all turn our lives upward to Him and avoid what lies below

Proverbs 15:24
The way of life winds upward for the wise. That he may turn away from hell below.