{"product_id":"book-s947","title":"Control Freak - The Least Valuable Player","description":"\u003cp\u003eLife as a carefree kid ended for TJ with a diagnosis of dyslexia-ADHD. He would have to repeat the 3rd grade at another school and was henceforth to be learning challenged, a person viewed through his limitations. His response was to take control of his world so that he wouldn't be embarrassed. He'd be funny: laughed with, not laughed at. He'd excel in athletics: swimming, soccer, football. God couldn't be trusted. Look what he'd allowed! TJ's life was tightly controlled, by him. Until one morning when TJ mysteriously lost his health to a strange, a terminal disease. Here was something he couldn't control. Could God? Would God?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of one man's wrestling with God over control. It's the story of his discovery that being a control freak could mean the destruction of his family and of his ability to contribute, or even survive in this life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWould he wield or yield?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am a recovering control freak. Being a control freak was a way of life. The only way I knew I could survive and thrive. I treated control like it was the most valuable player that could make anything happen. What a joke.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey say in life that \"life lessons\" are the best teachers, preferably someone else's. Well, I didn't listen. I had to learn the hard way. Doing things my way, all by myself. So, I became a control freak who craved one thing, More control. For much of my life, I insisted on controlling everything. Every single thing. Like an addict, I had an unquenchable thirst for control, especially in times when God seemed to be uncaring and absent. I believed that only the perseverance of total control would get me the results I wanted. Until I finally discovered Who is actually in control. Spoiler alert; it's not me. A few short years ago I found myself in a living hell where all hope seemed lost. I shouldn't even be alive. No one could've ever dared to dream that I'd get from there to here, not even me. But God was faithful and never let me go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-TJ\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50139035140400,"sku":"BDs947","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/s947-cover.jpg?v=1762564012","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-s947","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}