From the Back Cover...

Show me the person who has no emotional scars, and I will show you a person who has been sheltered from life. Scars reveal the battles we have faced in life, yet are evidence we are still standing. Wounds which have not healed however, are another matter. If any of you are struggling with hurtful experiences in your past, which has not yet healed—this can become your story as well. This is not a story of a man from a small river town in Illinois, but rather a story of God’s grace and faithfulness to use the most unlikely of vessels to do His will.

The men and women you will meet from the street gangs, occult, jails, and prisons of San Antonio, Texas—they are the story.

The journey you are about to enter can be defined by Anne Frank’s words: “See how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” Jim Daniels was but a flickering candle who was tested by life, and sent into the darkness of this world.

Some of our most hurtful experiences, which we consider to be the most devastating, can actually become those which make a stronger you. God tempers the old as He rebuilds the new.

The young boy that was hauled by his father from one honky-tonk to another, and made to wait outside back rooms of gambling-houses, with only a bartender as a babysitter—was actually a proving ground for a future minister, who would be called to minister to those who were snared into the occult, black arts, drugs and street gangs of South Texas.

The question each of us must ultimately answer—is not whether God can change a broken life, but rather will He do it for me, and if so, what is my responsibility to have it realized in my life?

This my friends is what the following journey is all about! Be ready to be challenged as you enter, “A journey into darkness,” with “The Chaplain!”