From bondage to breakthrough. McKenzie McAdoo spent 15 years in some of the world's toughest prisons. That kind of time changes a man.
Avlon McCreadie: 'When I approached Mac and offered to turn his testimony into a biography, I had no idea what I was getting into. So many times, we just had to stop. He had to stop telling me his story and I had to stop writing. It was just that painful. Painful for him to relive and painful for me to hear. But after a short respite, he forged on to the very end. Mac's biography is a truth well worth reading.'
'In this true testimony of McKenzie McAdoo you see how the light of God shines through the darkness. Jesus Christ makes old life new, Jesus says, 'Come to Me all who are heavy burdened, and I will give you rest' He has given you that rest brother Mac.
May God's peace continue to fill your cup always.' Shade Reed
We never have to live in bondage or darkness. Each and every one of us has the ability to lift ourselves out of the darkness of circumstance and into the light. But how do we do that? When our marriages are falling apart, or our finances are a mess. When poverty, crime, illness, and death surround us daily. How do we find the light?
'Sometimes we forget to remember the little things. This book is a reminder.' Nicole Garner
Have you ever wondered what it would be like? You know? To walk a mile in another man's shoes.
'The devil is laughing alright! Not only am I practically a junkie again, I'm also cheating on my wife with a married woman. This isn't backsliding. This is diving head first into a bucket full of sh*t. And I'm so numb I can't even smell it.'
Somehow everything had just kind of snowballed and David didn't even know how it got that bad. But the devil did!
'I am not much of a reader, but I owed someone a favour. So I flipped through the first few pages, I didn't put it down until I finished it!' Gerry Brummer
Based on the true story of a boy who was institutionalized at the age of two. He suffered brutal abuse and heart-breaking tragedy. Unable to process the depths of his own reality he became lost. Lost and meaningless. And just when it seemed he would drown in despair, someone started looking for him…
Hi, I'm Paul. I'm not quite sure what happened but I woke up and everything in my world was different. I don't quite know what to make of it. Everyone else is acting like this is normal. Like this is the way it has always been. I seem to be the only one who knows that it's not. I just don't know what to do about it.
Hi I'm Paul. I have a gift. I see people inside out. Not literally, that would be gross! Good people shine. They have light under their skin and bad people have shadows. The shadows are scary and evil. Now I can hear them too! The shadows are always whispering suggestions to be bad. Most shadow people don't know that they have a choice. They don't actually have to listen to those suggestions. I try to help them figure that out. That's not always easy. It's not like I can just walk up to them and say 'Erm you got a bunch of evil shadows crawling around under your skin. I think I can help you with that.' Light is the only thing that scares them away. And sometimes even that doesn't work!
Paul is an interesting and unusual young man. He is able to see people inside out. This means that he sees personality first and then external appearances. Paul's eyes see light shimmering off good people or shadows lurking in not so good people. His circle of friends and his mother are unaware of this ability he has. But he is not alone in this. He has an unseen friend; a friend who leads and guides his thoughts as he goes through his life experiences.
Paul also has a romantic interest. The girl he is falling for, you could only fall for if you did see people inside out. She is absolutely beautiful, on the inside!
He knows he is not like other people. He knows that he always feels out of place or that something is just not right. The trouble is he can't put his finger on just what that something really is.
The biggest burden and challenge in his life is struggling with the fact that his mother does not speak. He knows that she can speak because that was the last thing his father told him before he left. She just chooses not to. What Paul doesn't know is that there was another child; a brother who died before he was born.
His best friend Johnny's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit. And as if that is not bad enough, he has also managed to get his girlfriend pregnant.
