Deadhead: How I Wasted Three Years Saying No to God

In trucking, a deadhead is a run made empty. Real fuel. Real miles. No freight, no pay. For three years, that was Edgar's life - and he wasn't even driving yet. God had spoken. That part was never in question. Start the company. Move the freight. Build the thing with your own name on the authority. Edgar heard it in the truck, at the kitchen table, in the long quiet hours before dawn, and for three years he gave the only answer a religious man can give without using the word no: Not yet. He had reasons. Every one of them was true. The market was soft. The money wasn't there. And there was the driving record - the one thing that would have cost him twenty-six thousand dollars a year in insurance and closed the door before he ever opened it. Then a brother walked away from the coffee shop he had built, and got behind the wheel. DEADHEAD is the true account of a call refused, a call kept open, and a God who answers a man's disqualification not with a fix but with a friend. It is a book about the sin nobody preaches on - the thing you knew to do and did not do - and about what it costs a man to spend years being busy in every direction except the one he was sent. Written from Scripture on every page, it walks the reader through Moses at the bush and his four objections, Haggai's cieled houses, Jonah paying the fare to Tarshish, Elisha burning the plow, and the fig tree that bore nothing for three years and got one more season anyway. If you are sitting in year two of your own three - if you know exactly what He said and you are still watching the clouds - this was written for you. "And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten." - Joel 2:25 The word came to Jonah the second time. The offer is still open.