When you first hear the diagnosis that you have Parkinson’s Disease, or even if you have had it for a period of time, your life is transformed right in front of you. You actually allow all the negative thoughts of “WHAT or WHY” flood your mind. All you can see is every false image of who you are and what you will become. All you really want is to feel good and to be accepted for the right reasons. So what is happening right now is that all the “HOPE” for your life is being shattered in your present & future self. It is being stolen from you, leaving you with nothing but emptiness.

I believe as mentors it is our calling to help by being diggers. “Blessed is the man who digs a well from which another may draw Faith & Hope”. We help find the answers for the persons who are caught up in the trap of Parkinson’s Disease. We are the ones who stand beside them as they find strength and peace in their hearts. When their hearts are strengthened they can look into the face of Parkinson’s and say, “You cannot define me. That is Jesus’s job.”

It will be 3 years ago this August (2022) that I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. I have learned in over 35 years as a minister that a strong support system is an absolute must. My wife, Lori, and my family are the core strength of my support system. I increase my endurance and mobility thru exercise programs, such as Big and Loud and Rock Steady Boxing, with coaches and others who have PD and have also become friends and encouragers. I’m a firm believer that with your faith and your strong support system you can be an overcomer.

My decades of experience working with individuals as a life coach, mentor, councilor, pastor, and helping others, often those with destructive behaviors, to see through the fog of a lifetime of bad choices, enables me to use these skills to help those dealing with Parkinson’s.

The Lord is not in love with a new version of your future self. He is in love with who you are right now.

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