“When I wrote If I Should Die Before I Live, I pictured people who found themselves in between things. People asking, What now? or What next? Or, How am I doin’? Maybe souls that felt stuck in a day they didn’t expect and certainly wouldn’t choose. People who wonder if their story still matters, and if so, how?

As a pastor, radio storyteller, and life coach, I’ve spent years helping people pay attention to life. That means noticing the small “insignificants,” the quiet details, the ordinary moments that can slip past a body in twenty-four hours without a second thought. 

This book is my way of sitting with you on the front porch of my own life and asking, “You wanna look at life together?” My prayer is that reading it will help you see again the beauty, the hope, and the calling of a lifetime. The truth is that the life God gives us is fleeting, and slips through our fingers like sand slipping through the top of an hourglass, one moment at a time. Sorting out what matters most in that lifetime … has eternal consequences.
KJ