Patrick's Book: A Living Work

As you can see in the photo below, I can't bring myself to delete the calendar reminders. "Write morning men of God."  I was always that person for Patrick. He was the visionary, and I was the implementer. He was so zealous and creative, always thinking of ways to improve things and help people. I’d take one of his ideas and go full force in researching and planning.  One of our friends recently texted saying, “He always told me that you were the driving force, he was just holding the wheel.”  

It all started when Pat would send out encouraging texts to the brothers a couple years ago. When I saw all the love that was pouring in from men who had been impacted by his timely texts, I later encouraged him to turn them into a book. He said, “Yeah, okay that'd be cool” and kind of tucked in the back of his mind.   One of the many admirable things about Patrick was his humility. He never felt like, “I’m a big deal” or “The world needs to hear what I have to say.” He was just sharing what God had placed on his heart to encourage the men in his life. Until one day someone asked him "What's the name of that book you're sending the devotions from?" 

Once he finally realized that a book would be a good idea, if for nothing more than to share with the men in his circle, we reached out to a publishing company.  It seemed like nothing would work out with scheduling the initial consultation and every week there seemed a new person assigned to his project.  My discernment bells started to go off and some things seemed shifty.  A few weeks later, as I was being interviewed by an author for her upcoming book on homeschooling moms, I asked her about the credibility of the publishing company we were looking into.  She replied simply, "No." 

So, Patrick went back to the prayer closet and was reminded that a beautiful friend in ministry had a boutique publishing house.  He came to me and said, " Lost Poet Press is supposed to publish my book!" So, when he said that I replied, "Well call them then!" When God told Patrick something, I was surely not going to get in the way.  In November 2021, I remember fiercely reminding him “Don’t forget to email the editor!”  Shortly after his passing, I reached out to our editor and friend and said, "We have to do this, for him." She wholeheartedly agreed.  You can read both of our tributes in the Foreword and the Afterword of the devotional titled, "Good Morning, Men of God."  When it was finally released, I was simply grateful that his work and his vision was brought to life. There were so many talented individuals in place to help to take a simple word document and make it a living work.

I haven't read it in its entirety yet, but I've been honored to receive photos and words of encouragement from those who've ordered and started reading their copies!

Both the Kindle E-book and Paperback are available on Amazon.