Dan Gilman's faith in the Church and his strong bond with his staunchly Catholic family lead him to believe a priest's claim that he will make Dan walk again after he is paralyzed in a 1972 diving accident. The priest, Father Edward Paquette, is not a miracle worker, but a pedophile dismissed from churches in Massachusetts and Indiana for molesting young boys. Protected by the Church, who considers him a risk worth taking, Paquette is passed on from parish to parish until he lands at Christ the King Church in Rutland, Vermont only weeks before Dan's accident Sometimes heartbreaking, often inspiring, Dan Gilman's frank and compelling memoir is a trek across the highs and lows of the life of a quadriplegic who struggles with memories of his exploitation at the hands of the man whom he believed spoke for God.

Our lives play out in a world of relative truths. But the most important aspect of life was never meant to be so arbitrary or relative. Real love is based on absolute truth
Of all the strongest forces ever documented throughout history, love is by far the greatest. There is no comparison to the sacrifices made, the heroism shown or the riches lavished in the name of love.
Whether we believe in God, gods or nothing at all, we cannot ignore the fact that in life, there is an absolute best way for some things we practice. Of all the things we need to learn in life, love is the most important. Learning to love the right way is humanity's only real hope. It's time we return to the absolute best way
If you had to write it down on paper, how would you explain how you learned to love? Who taught you? Who taught them? And how well do you think we're all doing with our applications of love?
Through the sharing of personal life experiences, referencing God's word and the works of others, this book promotes fresh thought on why we love the way we do. Readers of this book will be entertained as they rediscover the purpose and value of love, and a real relationship with the author of it. They will participate in a redirection away from the "commercialized" concept of love, and be given the practical tools they need to begin a journey back to the love that God intends us to practice.
With a balance of simple, common sense analysis, well grounded arguments and some rather radical ideas, the readers will walk away with a whole new view of love and its application to their lives as well as to the world we all share.