GoodBetterBest - an autobiography

December 1985. Dear Father. Thank you Father for helping me through what has been both a challenge and a struggle. Writing by hand has been difficult for me and for those who have helped me translate my writing to book form. Because of problems with my speech it has been hard to deal with the many details of editing and printing.Thank you also Father for allowing my employment to continue for helping me to overcome the daily problems of working and living and for allowing me to find some pleasures too even some girls and their love.Thank you for the many friends you have helped me make in my church and in others in high school in college at workand for the help they have given me. And finally thank you for my wonderful family and for the strength you have given them in helping me survive. Mike Straights diary spans seven and one-half years. It is a story of early teens triumphs in football tragedy and striving to become whole again after an automobile accident at age 16.While it was a tremendous blow to be denied his beloved sport of football he fought his way upward to many accomplishments though confined for the most part to a wheelchair. Since his accident he has learned how to drive again owned several cars bought (and sold) his own home gone to three colleges and has held a manufacturing assembly job for the last several years. Now in addition to his job he lifts weights exercises daily and goes dancing.Mike has had for him great success (that most of us enjoy as normal). Yet love has eluded him; not having the true love of a woman returned to him has been his ongoing trial as his diary will tell you.Only through a deep love for God and a sometimes wavering and often challenged faith in Him has Michael sustained his determination to be good better best. That he has been able to write and publish this book is a tremendous tribute to both his faith and his determination as you will see.