16 Years: It Is Time I Tell My Story

I have had an interesting 2024. It is crazy to believe that the year is almost over. As we near the end of 2024, I am reminded that the older we get, the quicker life seems to go. Six months ago, I moved back home to Mississippi after spending almost three years in Texas for seminary and a church internship. Eight years ago, I slowly formed Know Ministries as a registered 501c3 nonprofit organization. With all this reflection on important things in my life, I have felt a calling, to be honest, with something that has not happened recently but is a noticeable appearance of who I am.

My Hair.

As a twenty-five-year-old, I feel having no hair is more normal than not having hair as a nine-year-old in third grade. When did you last see a nine-year-old without hair walk into his classroom, ready to start the school day? Even though that was me, I still cannot imagine how that is possible. I always thought that men having no hair was impossible until they were older. But I was wrong because it happened to me.

For sixteen years, I have lived with alopecia. For sixteen years, I have repeated that ‘Alopecia is an autoimmune disease that attacks the hair follicles caused by something viral.” Is that the medical definition? No, but it is mine.

Last year, I began a project: I started working on my next book. This past weekend, I received confirmation that my new book will be published soon. The hard work of editing is done, and now all my book has left to do is be formatted into the correct version.

My new book, Look in the Mirror, is my story of losing my hair to alopecia and detailing its effects on me and my childhood. I share my true feelings as I grew up without hair. I also share how we can look honestly at our brokenness and find our completeness in the new creation Jesus has made us.

Look in the Mirror is not just my story but a challenge to anyone who finds their identity in their brokenness to find completeness in Christ.

To learn more about Look in the Mirror and to receive updates on its progress, visit my Look in the Mirror webpage at the link below.