In His Image

<p><span style=color: rgba(63 63 63 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>On New Year's Day 2019 Michael Cabezas sat in a bathroom cubicle weeping. These were not tears of sorrow however but rather tears of joy tears of relief tears of revelation as he was finally once and for all experiencing the overwhelming and abundant love of God.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(63 63 63 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The youngest in a large Ecuadorian family in the city of Newark New Jersey Michael was a second-generation immigrant child of '80s and '90s America a life filled with hip-hop MTV video gaming and baseball. Sadly what his life lacked was the attention and affirmation of his father Victor. Broken by the attrition of chasing the American dream Michael's father had become a ghost in the home.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(63 63 63 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>When Victor passed suddenly in 1998 Michael turned to other sources of affirmation to fill the void left behind. His life became filled with the endless pursuit of glamor and hedonistic dreams?women wealth reputation drugs alcohol sharp clothes and fast cars. None of them satisfied. All of them left him weary disappointed and emptier than ever before. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(63 63 63 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Then came a turning point. When Michael's life was miraculously spared in a near-fatal vehicle accident he finally began seriously questioning where his life was headed. Slowly steadily another father his heavenly Father made Himself known the only one who could fill that void to overflowing?with love and purpose and value.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(63 63 63 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>In His Image is the poignant story of one man's discovery that beyond all his desperate attempts to create a lasting image for himself lay the true image of the God who had created him.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(63 63 63 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Imago Dei.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(63 63 63 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>In a world of falsehood and illusion this was the fascinating truth Michael needed to learn?and then live out.</span></p><p></p><p></p><h4><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Michael's story is one of hope over despair. Power in weakness. Triumph over tragedy.</em></strong></h4><h5><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>James Ray Head of 4M UK</em></h5><p></p>