The Reason: How I Discovered A Life Worth Living (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
I was supposed to be asleep on Gramps’s itchy brown tweed couch, but the TV was on. I can never sleep when the TV is on. The house was dark and everyone had long since gone to bed. So it was just Pat Robertson on the 700 Club show and me. Pat was showing videos about starving children in Somalia. There was a toll-free number on the bottom of the screen to call if you wanted to obey Jesus and donate money to these widows and orphans. If you didn’t know Jesus as your Savior, you could call the number to pray with someone and become his follower. I kept looking at the phone on the end table above my head. My heart was burning in me to help these children somehow, but I didn’t have any money. So instead I called and prayed with someone to become a follower of Jesus who, Pat said, was a God who loves kids and cares about widows and orphans. That same year I became an atheist. Kelton—we called him Kelly for short—was our cousin and my little brother Phillip’s best friend in 1991.
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