Like wrestle at the Naval Academy...

Do some really cool things in airplanes...

Find my soulmate...

Raise kids that share my sense of humor...

And I certainly didn't think I'd hear God tell me to write a book.

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God Was Always Speaking, I Just Wasn't Listening

I'm Not a Pastor. I'm Not a Therapist. I'm Just the Guy Who Almost Didn't Make It.

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Sometimes, everything changes with just one whisper.I was a retired Navy Captain. A Commanding Officer. A husband. A father of three. I spent 24 years flying combat missions and leading sailors around the world. From the outside, my life looked strong.Inside, I was drowning.I had mastered compartmentalizing. Take the stress, seal it in a box, move on. Behind the discipline and the drive were depression, anxiety, and months of quietly talking myself out of suicide. I didn't know how to ask for help. I barely knew how to name what I was carrying. I did what I had always done. I sucked it up and kept moving....until a Sunny day in September changed everything.That day, I walked into a church I never planned to enter and asked a question I never imagined I would ask. I wasn't chasing faith or the supernatural. I was just desperate enough to ask for help. What I found inside set off a chain of events that led me to El Salvador, where I went as a skeptic and stood in the middle of miracles I couldn't deny.This book is about the cost of holding it all together while falling apart inside. It explores doubt, the moments you can't chalk up to coincidence, and what happens when God shows up in ways you cannot ignore.You may pick this up thinking it's someone else's story.By the end, you'll know it was written for you.

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One year after a life-altering journey to El Salvador, Ben returns to the same mountains, the same streets, and many of the same faces.An Army of Angels Here follows a group of ordinary people on a mission to San Salvador who arrive expecting to serve, only to find that God has His own surprises in store.Inside classrooms and village prayer circles, a pattern begins to form that defies human logic or simple coincidence. Ben captures the awe-inspiring moments where the veil between heaven and earth thins, from divine appointments, to glimpses of the unseen realm, to the miraculous healing of the broken.As the journey unfolds, one truth comes into focus:Some things are much closer than we think.