As the saying goes, "Life is like a vapor, here today and gone tomorrow." It can be an amazing journey of ups and downs and can also be very challenging at times.

Oftentimes, over the years, folks have told me that I should consider writing a book about my life. I pushed the thought aside for a long time, and finally, after turning eighty years old and with much prompting and encouragement, I decided maybe it was time to try my hand at writing my biography.

This book is about my life, being born to an ordinary couple in a farming community in Northwest Ohio in 1944, and the changes that began to happen as I became an adult. I have experienced just about everything life has to offer, including love, heartbreak, success, and failure. But through the love of Christ, I survived it all.

We serve an amazing God, one who looks beyond our mistakes and failures, past our selfishness and ignorance, and sees our heart. Once a person accepts Him into their life and starts trusting Him in everything, He will always be there to pick them up, dust them off, and offer them a life full of joy and wonder. And the only thing He asks in return is that we love Him. And through the love of Jesus Christ, His Son, we can know that we have so much more to look forward to one day in eternity with Him.

As you read this book, my prayer is that it will touch your heart and influence you in a very positive way and that it becomes just a stepping stone to better things ahead.

The key is to only believe, and never give up.

In His service,

John L. Winright