Prodigal Son

About the Book

This book is a true account of my journey through life in hopes it would encourage those on the journey of faith and self-discovery. I was taken away as a child, abandoned, Children’s Aide Society, lost family, Reform School for Boys, my escape, returning home to my parents and leaving again at age sixteen. I was married at age eighteen, had three children. I suffered through mental illness, divorce and homelessness. This book is about my spiritual awakening and about a prophecy! It is about God’s love and patience, and my journey into religion, ordination, ministry, and rejection of conventional religion. It is about my founding of the Franciscan Lutheran Community Ministry. After years of ministry and a period of self-reflection I recognized it was the time to fulfill the prophecy. I began a new journey of faith and the actualization and fulfillment of myself, and a new beginning….

About the Author

I was born in Orillia, Ontario, Canada. Due to mental illness, my family was broken up and I became a ward of the Children’s Aide Society. I returned home to my parents in my teens, and left at the age of sixteen with no education and no hope. A broken marriage and three kids and my own experiences in life provided me with an empirical knowledge not found in schools. I experienced a religious experience. Late in my life I returned to school, beginning with grade five and then into university and later into the seminary. I was commissioned as a brother in the Order of Saint Francis and was ordained a priest in the Lutheran tradition. I became the founder of the Franciscan Lutheran Community Ministry finding my purpose in reaching out to those outside the church and later by song writing and recording music.