Book One · Where it starts
The Battle Begins on Your Knees
A Prayer Book for Men
It is not for the man who has it together.
It is for the man who is tired. The man who is losing ground. The man who hasn’t prayed in years and doesn’t know where to start.
Start here. On your knees. Before the day starts swinging.
The full story
About the Book
Most prayer books assume you already know how. This one doesn’t.
It starts where you actually are: in the truck before your shift, on the edge of the bed at two in the morning, in the garage with the light off because you don’t want anyone to see your face. It gives you words when you don’t have any of your own, and it stays out of your way when you do.
No formulas. No streaks to keep. No shame if you skipped a month. Just a man’s honest prayers, laid out plain, so you can pick one up and mean it.
Why I Wrote It
I didn’t pray for years. Not because I stopped believing. Because I didn’t know what to say, and I was tired of hearing myself fake it.
When I finally started again, it was ugly. Short. Angry, some days. And it worked, in the sense that anything real works: it put me in front of God without a costume on.
I wrote the book I needed then. If you’re standing where I was standing, it’s yours.
Before you read
A Prayer
Lord, I don’t have the words and I’m done pretending I do. Take what I’ve got. It isn’t much. Meet me here anyway, before the day starts swinging. Amen.
