Tyler Wood was a successful professional, a dynamic athlete, and a happy family man. This young Texan evolved from a high school and college leader to an award-winning professional with a family he loved, a luxury home - everything he'd ever wanted, all before he was thirty years old. Suffering from the Father Wound - a psychological injury inflicted by a father who knew no better - Tyler was deeply, emotionally crippled. He lost everything - family, business, and home - and reached a point of profound depression only seconds from killing himself. A supernatural miracle of God knocked him sideways in his soul. Tyler tells his story with complete honesty, holding back nothing. The most intimate details of his thunderous fall from grace are revealed with shocking vulnerability. He tells the very personal story of how men are identifying the Father Wound and healing and changing their lives. Tyler introduces Rock Bottom Outreach, a ministry devoted to being the hands and feet of Jesus. Meet founder Rick Smith and some of the courageous men and women ministering to anyone who has hit rock bottom with the same love and compassion modeled by Jesus when he walked upon the earth. The Rock Bottom Outreach team aspires to put its faith in action by serving those in need without regard to how they fell into their difficult circumstances. They meet the brokenhearted right where they are and stand in the gap for those who have nowhere else to turn. Rock Bottom Outreach welcomes those who need restoration from rock bottom or feel they have been called to serve others who have. Not a church, with no physical facility, this dynamic team relies solely on volunteers to carry out the work they are called to do in His name.
About the Author: Tyler Wood Who is he? A man with a caution ribbon across his chest? Darth Vader's son? Mean as a junkyard dog? The best father in the world? The most loving partner? A desperate man who hit rock bottom and headed for death by drowning? Or is he a man with a sensitive little boy inside abandoned at the age of ten by a dad struggling with his own demons? Tyler Wood is all of those. Hiding a father wound in the deepest reach of his soul, he spent decades trying to be the man of the house for his mother and sister. He was the kind of kid who did what his father told him: "Take care of your mom and your sister, son. I've got to leave." The man Tyler worshiped, loved, and in whom he deeply believed, left a child who collected pennies to walk to the store and buy milk for his sister. This was a boy who prayed every night for his father to return and resume the responsibilities of a real man. In Are You Kidding Me, God? the catastrophic effect of Tyler's deep hurt and anger unfold in tragic detail. A native of Cleburne, Texas, Tyler emerged early on as a youthful leader, president of his high-school senior class, and outstanding college athlete, a sure pick for the NFL. A nationally-recognized award-winning rugby star, he played as hard as he did everything else. He went straight from many championship games to the emergency room to have his ribs moved back into place. He drank hard, fought hard, and left blood behind in plenty of places. Tyler swept through life like the biggest, most outrageous guy in the room. He married the most popular girl, had the most wonderful children, and turned a hometown business into the top remodeling operation in the nation's third largest residential market. When his world turned upside down, Tyler discovered where his real strength was and what true resources he could muster.