When Josh is finally granted parole after fifteen years behind bars in a Texas prison, he is desperate to start a family.  When he arrives in Tennessee to spend parole with his Papaw and Oma, he is made aware that his Papaw is dealing with the early signs of Alzheimer’s.  Papaw’s increasing slide into Alzheimer’s drives him to do everything he can to get the journals he wrote in the sixties and seventies into the computer for his child and his grandchild.

The journals tell of Papaw’s search for a “Cause” that will define him and make his life relevant. His quest for faith and belief in something larger than himself takes him through combat in South Vietnam. His desperate attempts to survive in “the real world” of life after combat are compounded by struggles with alcoholism and painfully complex family dynamics.

This is a story about people of faith being tested with addiction to prescription pain killers, aging, family breakups and the betrayal of friends while making every effort to keep faith through it all.

You may find within these pages characters similar to people you know and situations you may be facing. It is my most sincere prayer that in them you will find your way to the Other Side of Hope found only in Jesus.