If you know anything about my story then you probably know that after I walked away from the NFL, I moved to Canada where I started to serve a church so that I could get mentored and start healing the pain that was keeping me stuck and miserable in life. And as you might imagine, the first several months of this season of life was anything but easy. I was more confused and frustrated and angry than ever before. I’ve never felt so lost and my heart was drowning in a sea of despair. The hard part wasn’t necessarily finding the discipline to show up every day, that wasn’t the case. The hard part, and maybe you can relate, was trying to understand what was happening in my heart and in my life. Nothing made sense. I couldn’t conceptually understand what was happening. There was no formula for this process, no playbook that gave me a play by play. It felt as if I was walking blind and had no idea where my next step was going to land me. The uncertainty of this season of surrendering, or letting go, was almost unbearable until one day, while cleaning the church’s bathrooms, I heard Jonathan come on a random podcast and share his own story of brokenness, his season of surrendering, or letting go, or what he calls his Shipwreck. From that moment on, everything changed. I’m not exaggerating when I say that I consumed every piece of content that I could get my hands on that Jonathan published and his voice and through his written word, his story slowly became a prophesy for what was to come in my own life, and truthfully, I’ve never been the same.

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