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24 | WheelsOfGrace.com | Issue 44 They were seeds planted that in spite of everything that had happened to me, were used by God to draw me slowly back to him. Years ago I started taking the Bible seriously and so I now read through my Bible several mes a year and have fallen in love with the amazing Word of God. It has truly transformed my life and give me great peace today. W.O.G. Have you ever been married? Doc.: Yep, I was married for over 20 years. It was a rela onship that started when I was in graduate school. I met a young lady who ended up being from my hometown. We dated for three weeks and then eloped in Las Vegas and eventually that rela onship ended when she chose to make some decisions that were less than what they should have been. It was trauma c but even in that I could see how God allowed me strength that I never knew that I had. That rela onship ended and over a year later Diena and I started da ng. W.O.G. You have a son, Michael. How old is he? Doc.: The son you met is Michael. His nickname is "Realms" because he has a You Tube Channel where he is known as LightRealms. He is my youngest and is very involved in B.A.T. at the ripe old age of 15. I also have two older kids. My daughter, Kylie is 26 and lives in London while a ending graduate school at the University of London and my oldest son, Ricky is 23 and is a doctoral student in Math at Duke University. W.O.G. You must be proud of your kids and what they are doing with their lives. What a dad wants… Talk about having a different upbringing from yours, thanks to you. What would you say, has been the biggest blessing being a professional therapist and in ministry at the same me? Doc.: Having a more balanced approach to helping a person in whatever they might be facing in life. Having a theological underpinning that is combined with clinical counseling skills helps a great deal. It also teaches me great humility. W.O.G. How does your faith and Biblical principles impact your professional career? Doc.: That combina on drives me with a sense of passion and love. I truly want to share the amazing grace of Jesus with everyone I come in contact with and I believe my call is to the edges of society. Those with the jagged edges and the scarred pasts. W.O.G. So, let's go a li le into the sensi ve part of your life. Although you are a therapist and help people all day everyday, you have a passion for survivors of human trafficking. Why? Doc.: I have a passion about helping those who have suffered from human sex trafficking because of my own sexual abuse and trauma that happened all the way up to my late teens; my experience in having mul ple clients coming to me who had been trafficked and then when I met Diena and heard how she had been trafficked by her father from the age of 3 to 17. God used those stories to launch a passion within me to eradicate this evil and to provide help for all those who have been touched by the trauma associated with it. W.O.G. When was the first me you heard about human trafficking? Doc.: Strangely enough, I always knew it was out there but never realized the depth of it un l around six years ago when I started helping clients who had been trafficked. I didn't even realize that in some aspects that I was trafficked un l I was a sophomore in College. W.O.G. How did you feel? www.BikersAgainstTrafficking.org