The Orphan Carpenter

**Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award - Gold Medal Winner,Religion/Spirituality/Instruction** Independent PressAward - Distinguished Favorite,Christian"My God, My God, why haveyou forsaken me?"Have you ever wonderedwhere God is? How can this be happening? What did I do to deserve this? Haveyour circumstances led you to question your faith? Does God care? Does he evenexist?Thoughts flooded my head from our traumatic failedadoption. "Lord, where were you this time? Is this how our seven-year-longjourney to have children ends? Are we being punished? Are we cursed? Thisadoption seemed so right. I thought I was ready. I really thought I could helpthese kids. After all, I started life as an Orphan."My corebeliefs had been shaken. To make sense of what just happened, I went back andexamined my own life. So many times, the odds were heavily stacked against me,life, and death situations. Yet, somehow, someway, God always showedup.From orphan to carpenter and beyond, the pages of thisbook are my life stories. But the book is not about me or my story. It's aboutGod's. As you read these true stories of my life like parables, may they be atestament that God is present and active in your life, that he loves you andhas a plan to give you hope and a future.