I was playing  in Cocoa Beach one day. The center was hosting nurses that day to experience and understand clinical addiction. After my performance at the center I was loading my vehicle with my gear and one of the nurses came out and was watching me. I asked her for her phone number. I called and we got together. I was not looking for a serious relationship because I was afraid after all I had gone through with my last divorce. 

I know when we started dating, I was hard on her because of what I had been through, but she stuck with me, and after a few years we married. Once again God doing for me what I could not do for myself. She had been married to a traveling preacher so she understood traveling to help others. She became an oncology nurse for her pevious husbands had died from cancer.. After working in her career for some time she retired and started traveling with me as I began traveling to rehabs around the country.

I had never really performed much up to that point. In the early band days I would play out with the guys but we were young inexperienced and under rehearsed. I found out as I started to take performance more serious, that if I rehearsed the material until I could play it in my sleep, I did not  experience “stage fright” or problems during performance. My show got better and stronger to the point where I was getting standing ovations all over the country, even in Nashville! Crazy.. God was doing for me what I could not that’s for sure! Everything started to feel really divinely right for me.