A. For me, it specifically came within my own dialogue with God.  However, I believe that once we encounter the reality of healing grace, there are two questions we must all confront:

1. Do you want to be healed?

2. How healed do you want to be?

I address both of these in my book.

Q. So you believe we choose how much healing we will experience?

A. To an extent, yes.  Definitely.  That’s because healing – as I describe it in the book – is an ongoing operation of God’s grace.  I think the Bible indicates that we are constantly making choices about how much we are going to respond to the grace available from our generous God.

Q. What inspired you to write this book?

A. A good deal of it was inspired by the things I learned while walking with my wife and family through her recovery from a brutal head-on car collision in February of 2000. 

Q. What happened?

A.  She and two of my children were driving home from school through a fierce rainstorm when they were struck head-on by an out-of-control pickup truck.  Thankfully, my kids were not seriously harmed physically, but Robin suffered over 50 bone fractures and three traumatic brain injuries.  She was in the hospital for 2 ½ months and underwent many surgeries and other medical interventions thereafter.

Q. That must have really rocked your world.

A. It did.  But it was also the occasion for the greatest lessons we have ever learned about grace, love, perseverance, healing and hope.

Q. So is the book the story of Robin and your family?

A. No.  Our story is woven through parts of the book but the heart of it is a closer look at what the word “healing” actually describes. 

Q. Okay, so what is healing?

A. I describe it in five aspects or dimensions. 

* Removal or release from that which causes injury.

* Repair

* Restoration

* Redemption

* and Revelation – the rarest form of all.

Q. How might someone actually benefit from what you have written in How Healed Do You Want to Be?

A. Among other things, it provides a reader with a roadmap by which they can measure their own healing progress.  Not only can they better understand where they are at in their healing process, but it also gives a sense of where they have come from and where they may be headed next as healing takes a deeper hold on them.

Q. When you speak of healing, are you talking about physical healing or emotional healing or interpersonal healing or spiritual healing or what?

A. Yes!  I actually take a comprehensive view of healing that involves all the dimensions of the human experience.