Author: J. Pruett Wood

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.