After almost crashing from lack of sleep Johnnie pulls into a truck stop to rest. Jesús goes to sleep in the top bunk and Johnnie goes inside for a shower where all he can think about is San Francisco.Later, Johnnie wakes up in the middle of the night after hearing his name called and Jesús suggests that he should respond to the one that is calling. In response, Johnnie steps outside for a cigarette full of memories.























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After almost crashing from lack of sleep Johnnie pulls into a truck stop to rest. Jesús goes to sleep in the top bunk and Johnnie goes inside for a shower where all he can think about is San Francisco. Later, Johnnie wakes up in the middle of the night after hearing his name called and Jesús suggests that he should respond to the one that is calling. In response, Johnnie steps outside for a cigarette full of memories.

After almost crashing from lack of sleep Johnnie pulls into a truck stop to rest. Jesús goes to sleep in the top bunk and Johnnie goes inside for a shower where all he can think about is San Francisco.Later, Johnnie wakes up in the middle of the night after hearing his name called and Jesús suggests that he should respond to the one that is calling. In response,&nbsp;Johnnie steps outside for a cigarette full of memories.

Mercy Not Sacrifice by Dan Parks - Chapter 15

In Gardenstown along the Missouri River the Carman family operates a trucking business. The intertwined stories of Grandpa John, grandson Johnnie, and great grandson Jeffrey link together to form the history of depression in the Carman family men. Johnnie bears the burden of a broken family tree and has held onto the idea of wanting to make his family since his youth. Lore, Johnnie’s shadow self, becomes an unstable refuge in his life. Grandpa John withdrawals from the family after his wife’s death and Jeffrey cuts his wrists in an attempt to flee the sacrifice of keeping his parents together. Johnnie is asked to help Jeffrey with the same issues he fights within himself. Grandpa John meets with the new Priest in town. Uncles Archie and Sam buy Grandpa John out of the trucking business. Johnnie visits his bi-polar alcoholic Mother and turned Baptist preacher Father drowning him under the burden of sacrifice. In response, he heads out in a rig to the Golden Gate Bridge where he thinks mercy will be found. In Gardenstown Jeffrey attempts a final sacrifice and Grandpa John dies with Jeffrey on his mind. Filled with sacrifice, depression, and burden Mercy not Sacrifice bookends it’s drama with the love of family, real life men, and an example of how true healing can occur. Broken family trees can bud new life as Johnnie Carman of Mercy not Sacrifice tells the reader how he did so.

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Mercy Not Sacrifice by Dan Parks - Chapter 15

Mercy Not Sacrifice by Dan Parks - Chapter 15