Beginning Tomorrow Today - By Timothy Sherman

happens from time to time.

Little did I realize that I was being prepared for things to come! About twelve years later, at twenty-eight years of age, I would experience a miraculous translation of Biblical proportions. That translation turned out to have great purpose and destiny and brought great honor to God and touched many, even multitudes. The domino effect continues to this day!

Younger Years

I was born from above or saved in church at the tender age of six. In those younger years, I remember innocence and knowing the touch of a loving, nurturing mother and father who kept me in Sun day school and kept me around good people. These experiences made Jesus very real to me. However, as I began to experience adolescence, girls suddenly became the main attraction. I had to be "the man," and youthful pride overcame me, much like it does many young men. My wrong choices of those days brought sorrow to all who loved and believed in me. They knew there was something better in me and they wanted to see it in my life. I had fallen captive to my selfishness and began following the crowd. I felt forgotten and mis understood by my Dad. Feeling as if he didn't know or understand what I needed, I shifted the blame for my behavior onto my father.

Dad, A Father: Best Man I've Ever Known

My Dad, Sessil Edward Sherman, "Bud," was a good, hard working, and moral man of deep integrity, who seemed unable to verbally express emotions or to show me love and affection as I was growing up. He was strong of soul and tough, but not abusive. He tried to train me and make me strong, but I perceived this as neglect 27