Tony Garrison

Yep...I Wrote About Faith Tony Garrison

I was not baptized when I married my Catholic Wife. She was attending premarriage counseling alone (she was in England and I was in Alabama while we were engaged) and her Priest asked her at the beginning of her last session, "So, you still want to marry this heathen?" That was on the very same day I had won first place in a nationwide contest for the first poem I'd ever written about faith. God was telling me something that I was not yet able to hear. Fast forward about fifteen years or so; I am the Cub-master for our Pack and it is proving to be harder than wood pecker lips. Though I did believe, I was not living my faith. But a Scout is reverent (Scout Law) and I really needed a hand and had the crazy thought that if God saw me in His house on Sunday, things might get better... and they did! I joined the church although due to my regular presence there with scouting, they informed me that they had already considered me part of their church family. I liked all of them a lot too. You might say I even fell in love with them. As I grew in my faith, I began to think about it much more often than I had ever done so before...so I wrote about it! I'm not a theologian. I'm not a clergyman. I'm not perfect. I am just a Christian who freely admits his belief and likes writing about it. I certainly hope you enjoy reading about it too. God bless you, Friend! P. S. All money earned from the sale of this book goes directly to my church and our community of faith (see Three Churches that Can).