Return to Your First Love is not the typical self-help/relationships book filled with anecdotes and quotes from experts.  Readers are invited to sit in the front row to experience actual events that dig deep and expose carnality and misconstrued ideas about Christianity, which will in turn guide them to a path of true intimacy with God.   

My story begins on the Southside of Chicago, in the Woodlawn Neighborhood - an area of the city where poverty and despair are prevalent.  The kind of neighborhood that might cause one to ask, "Can any good thing come out of Woodlawn?"  To add to my dilemma, I'm a member of a dysfunctional family where my father often neglects his paternal responsibilities in favor of gambling, drinking and other women.  A tumultuous relationship with my mother intensifies my troubles.  In the midst of pain and strife, I'm aware that God is extending His loving hand toward me and comforts me through the ordeal.  I find peace as I travel with Him down my stony pathway.   

As I embark upon adulthood, I escape my childhood barriers, to discover that new obstacles have been set before me - impractical men, counterfeit friends, malicious employers, challenges with finances, and even abandonment by my siblings.  I exhaust precious time and energy fighting the wrong battles.  The allurements of the world ignite a war between my spirit and my flesh.  As a result, I adopt a part-time relationship with God.  I continue to attend church every Sunday, read the Bible, and pray.  However, I lose my zeal that I had for God as a child, along with my childlike faith.  I'm unaware that I have also lost my joy and peace, which sends me on a downward spiral toward depression.  By age 27, just about everything that could have gone wrong in my life has.  It is at this low point in my life that I make the decision to return to my first love.