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22 | WheelsOfGrace.com | Issue 44 gang at the me and spent a great deal of me selling drugs and taking care of all kind of other business like taking care of people… if you know what I mean. His case was so unique that it was featured in a book on homicide years later. He had killed three men but later on he told me that he had killed so many that it would fill up a phone book. A er serving three years of his sentence he was transferred to a medium security prison and six months later my mom and my three brothers and I helped him escape and we ended up living on the run for the next five years. We traveled all over the United States, camped in a tent in Greely, CO for a while, se led down in Las Vegas and then eventually drove to Miami, Florida where my father became one of the infamous Cocaine Cowboys of the late 70's early 80's. You can imagine the tension, stress and evil that was brought into our lives. We lived with drug dealers, murderers and crooked poli cians and cops. It was a crazy me and I actually ended up having a godfather that was named Bud, who was a crazy old southern drug dealer from the South. When my dad first escaped we tried our best to have a normal life but being on the run, ea ng food that was thrown away each night from McDonald's really gets to you; not to men on that three different mes we changed our last names to hide our true iden ty. By the me we got to Miami I started to realize how messed up my life had become and found solace for a few years in riding my motorcycle and diving head long into track and field. W.O.G. Tell us a li le more about the young Patrick Nave. Let's say from 13 to 18 when you became an adult. What was the kid and the teenager Patrick Nave like? Did they call you Patrick or Pat? Did you have a nickname? Doc.: I was 16 in Miami, Florida. At that me I tried to live life with sports as the focus and was running track and field in interna onal meets with a goal of ge ng to the Olympics. My motorcycle at the me was a Honda 175 Enduro and I rode it like I was Evel Knievel. Eventually my father was caught by the FBI and sent back up to Michigan where he finished out the rest of his original prison sentence. I on the other hand got into doing drugs, selling them and trying to figure out how I was going to become a hit man for organized crime. Needless to say, life became rather chao c and in between the moments of sanity were do ed a lot of things that I would rather not remember but am thankful to God for his eternal grace. W.O.G. Were you the same as you are today? Did you have the same interests, same passions? Doc.: I was not the same as today. I was pure evil, full of hatred and had no empathy or compassion. W.O.G. What about the photo below? That is a slight transforma on from the man I'm looking at. When was that J? Doc.: Strangely enough, a er I ended up homeless on the streets of Miami I ended moving back to Detroit from Miami and lived with my grandmother. It was there that I learned to develop my outer shell, my mask. I went on to barely graduate high school, went to college to study law and on the way somehow got guilted into becoming a minister. I really believed back in 1987 that God had kept me alive through many close calls and the only reason was so that I could serve Him. I was terrified of God and knew that if I did not go into ministry he would kill me. You see, God was the only one I feared more than my own father. What you see above on the le is a picture of a man that was struggling to keep his inner demons from ea ng him alive. But it was a wonderful "show." W.O.G. If Doc., could say something to a younger Doc. today, what would he say to him? Doc.: It depends. At some point I would want to assure the younger me that the things that happened to me did not have to define me and that God was not some evil tyrant out to play with my mind. I also would encourage my younger self to get away from my father as soon as was humanly possible. He was pure evil and never did anything good to or for anyone. W.O.G. Where did you go to school to become a doctor? Doc.: I went to Andrews University where I got a BA in Religion and a Masters in counseling and religion. I then later got my doctoral degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Southern Chris an University. www.BikersAgainstTrafficking.org