I didn’t set out to be an author.
I was entrusted to be a witness. My life is not a story of achievement, education, or religious ambition. By most worldly standards, I am a nobody — a failure, even. I was told often that I wasn’t good enough. I was different. Sporty. Not academic. I hated reading and writing, and I found studying tedious. Anyone who knew me growing up would tell you the same.
I am not religious.
I am a God-fearing man — and I cannot deny what God has done in my life.
A life marked before it was understood.
From an early age, the Lord took me in and revealed Himself to me through moments I did not yet understand. Encounters that stayed with me. Whispers, protection, dreams, and a quiet knowing that followed me through childhood, failure, and years of searching.
I didn’t have the language for it then.
But I recognised His presence.
Ordinary life. Extraordinary faithfulness.
As a young adult, I moved to the United Kingdom to play semi-professional cricket. Today, I work in construction, building foundations. I’ve started three businesses — and all of them failed. I’ve known disappointment, instability, and the feeling of always falling short.
And yet, through it all, God was there.
Not distant.
Not silent.
Faithful.
Why I wrote Marked by the Word.
The Lord revealed Himself to me in a dream and told me to write it down. I did — first in my heart, long before it became words on a page.
Nearly thirty years after those early encounters, what followed was not a plan to become an author, but an act of obedience: recording what I had lived, seen, and could no longer keep to myself.
That obedience became Marked by the Word.
Why this story exists.
I am not special.
I am not qualified by the world’s standards.
But I have a testimony — and I believe it was never just for me.
If my story does anything, I hope it helps others recognise that God often reveals Himself long before we know how to explain Him — and that He is closer than we think.
He is faithful.
And because of Him, you are qualified too.
