title: A Father's Healing Touch: Restoring Your Family After a Tragedy
author:  D.J. Young 
description: D.J. Young grew up in Aberdeen, South Dakota. After serving in the U.S. Navy, and attending seminary, he earned a B.S. in Sociology from Carroll College in Helena, Montana, and did graduate studies in Special Education. After a season of pastoring, D.J. was a christian school teacher and principal for over twenty years, and directed three recent Oregon Christian Writers' summer coaching writers conferences. D.J. is a full-time writer and conference speaker with a passion for encouraging men in their God-given role as "Dad". He and his wife Kathy have been married over forty years, and are the proud parents of five adult children and grandparents of six.
zlib_text: **Contents**
  
  Chapter One
  
  Chapter Two
  
  Chapter Three
  
  Chapter Four
  
  Chapter Five
  
  Chapter Six
  
  Chapter Seven
  
  Chapter Eight
  
  Chapter Nine
  
  Chapter Ten
  
  Chapter Eleven
  
  Chapter Twelve
  
  Chapter Thirteen
  
  Chapter Fourteen
  
  Chapter Fifteen
  
  Chapter Sixteen
  
  Chapter Seventeen
  
  Chapter Eighteen
  
  Chapter Nineteen
  
  Chapter Twenty
  
  Chapter Twenty-one
  
  Chapter Twenty-two
  
  Chapter Twenty-three
  
  Chapter Twenty-four
  
  Chapter Twenty-five
  
  Chapter Twenty-six
  
  Chapter Twenty-seven
  
  Chapter Twenty-eight
  
  Chapter Twenty-nine
  
  Chapter Thirty
  
  Chapter Thirty-one
  
    
  
  About the Author
  
   **Chapter One**
  
  Dad always knew the world was going to end.
  
  He prepared us for it. Stockpiling food instead of getting us new clothes, and
  getting me a gun instead of a car for my sweet sixteen. He called himself a
  prepper. Our neighbors called him crazy.
  
  But he was right. All it took was one little virus.
  
  “I’m going to the hospital,” Dad told me, a couple months after the virus hit.
  He wore blue scrubs and carried his