J. Pruett Wood 
Purple Room 
Where Hope Confronts Loss

In every life, there comes a time when nothing, including God, seems to make sense. There are times when we figuratively find ourselves hanging from a fifteen thousand-foot cliff by one slender rope, completely out of options. We call out to God for rescue, and His answer is to cut the rope. Or worse yet, God Himself may appear to cut the rope for us. What do we do and where do we turn when the life we had imagined disintegrates before our eyes? Who do we blame? Is the comfortable, happy life that we have come to expect a lie? Confronting his youngest daughters diagnosis of pediatric bone cancer, as well as his own struggle with cancer left John Wood questioning a seemingly invisible God. Encounter the journey and discover where Wood eventually landed following his sojourn in the valley of the shadow of death.

About the author

John Wood graduated from Harding University with an undergraduate degree in business management and later earned a master’s degree in educational administration. He spent eighteen years in the high-stress world of retail buying and store management. In February of 1994, returning home from a business trip, the small commuter plane that he boarded along with twenty-one other passengers went down in a sugar cane field in New Roads Parrish, Louisiana. The experience jolted him into understanding that the life he had worked to create was slowly unraveling. Following a dramatic change in careers and a new sense of fulfillment, his life was once again humming along at full speed, when on one heart-wrenching day in December of 1999, he felt it explode.