Book excerpt: My story tells about how I went from being blown up overseas by two impoverished explosive devices (IED) in the military to being suicidal to failing relationships. There were so many obstacles that I had to overcome and at the time, I didn't know how to overcome them. Without them, I don't know where I would be in life. I had given up on God and lost all hope, being so afraid of the unknown and unexpected, I was at a crossroad, and it was going to end in a disastrous way.