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But the reality was that I was hiding my internal spiritual shortcomings behind an exterior of religiosity and self-righteousness. Aer all, I was a deacon in my church and surely God would approve of my position because everyone else did. at's when things started to unravel. As a confused husband and father of four teens/preteens hiding behind an external religious mask, I didn't want people to know the true me with all my failures, shortcomings, and faults. Consequently, I made some incredibly poor decisions that resulted in me separating from my wife and kids to another state "to find myself " and to run away from people discovering the real me. At the time, I adopted the philosophy that "live for today because tomorrow you die" and started hanging out with a completely different set of people (bikers) in some very anti-Christian places. What I didn't know is that God was starting a "rebuild" project in me. Just like my 2012 Road Glide, where Mark Brodie, the designer and crasman for YEEHOG had a vision for a seemingly great bike, my "Master" (God) had a vision and a different plan in store for my life even though up until my bad decisions, everyone else saw me as seemingly good and fine. One common denominator in any rebuild project is that "some disassembly is required." 32 GraceRiderMag.com July/August 2015