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Craig Matthews

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Craig ran away from his Michigan home at seventeen with his girlfriend. He had sold the love of his life on the romantic idea of living in the wild, wild west. So they wrote goodbye notes to all of their family and friends, packed the car and left on a sunny June afternoon with three hundred and fifty dollars between them.

God rudely interrupted the fanciful journey at a rest area west of Chicago with a one-in-a-million chance meeting. Craig walked through the entry door to the old facility at the same moment his cousin exited. Joe, who is twenty years older, just happened to be moving to Colorado that day with his family. Long story short, Joe appealed to their sense of family and encouraged them to call home before they continued westward ...more

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Average rating: 4.87 · 30 ratings · 22 reviews · 7 distinct works

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	Visions: Stories and Poems from Peculiar Perspectives by Diana Kathryn Penn (Goodreads Author), Andrew Allen Smith (Goodreads Author), Chelsea Gouin really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Cameron Lost book launch party

Home from my second launch party, this one was at a coffee house in the town I live in Michigan.

I had an enjoyable time talking with people from all walks of life interested in hearing the stories I have written and listening to their stories.

Fun times.

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The Last to Vanish

by Megan Miranda (Goodreads Author)

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Campaigning With Grant

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The Ark Files (Eden Black Archaeological Thrillers #1)

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I more than hated this book. Way more than hated it. So much more than that. The antithesis of hatred, in this case, is that I absolutely loved it. Listening on my trip home from Florida, the first Florida trip since my wife of 43+ passed away, and I ...more
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Craig Matthews rated a book it was amazing Where the Light Fell by Philip Yancey (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Excellent memoir. Had me choked up several times.
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This book was given to me by a friend, and I was a little reluctant to read another book on grief and loss. I mean, how many times can I beat myself up over it? That is a crummy attitude. I am so glad that I read this book. I read it slowly. It is pa ...more
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“I don't think we choked this time. We never played well enough to choke.”
― Craig Matthews

tags: 2010-icc-world-twenty20, choking, cricket, defeat, pressure, south-africa-cricket-team

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Craig’s Quotes

“Forgiveness is the language of heaven.”
― Rebecca Nichols Alonzo, The Devil in Pew Number Seven

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“I forgive you.” Those just might be the three most difficult words in the world to say to someone who has wronged you—especially if you mean what you’re saying. Come to think of it, it’s even more difficult to forgive the offender before he or she has asked for forgiveness—and virtually impossible to extend forgiveness to a person who, by all appearances, may never apologize for his or her actions.”
― Rebecca Nichols Alonzo, The Devil in Pew Number Seven

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“Layer upon layer of soft-packed snowflakes settled in near silence, forming a quilt of feathery ice crystals.”
― Rebecca Nichols Alonzo, The Devil in Pew Number Seven

tags: snowflakes

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