Why does a child with so much promise have to die so young while lesser men
go on living? "This wasn´t the God I signed up for"
MEDIA GUEST: Gene Kiepura-author of Back To Tonic, the tell-all, true life story, about his child's tragic death in Mexico and grieving in America.
A MAN MUST SMUGGLE HIS SON 'S ASHES OUT OF MEXICO AND
REBUILD HIS SOUL IN AMERICA
Back to Tonic...
A CRISIS OF FAITH, NATIONS, AND CULTURES
Members of a small church gathered together to pray for their youth leader and four boys who were about to embark on a mission trip to Mexico. Seventeen days later, all five of them were dead. Life was painfully changed but more suffering lay ahead. After the horrific experience of recovering the bodies, Gene was appalled and perplexed by a greedy and indifferent American Embassy staff and a long stream of corrupt Mexican officials who had no qualms exploiting a grieving father´s vulnerability while in a foreign land. With no other recourse, Jake´s and the remains of the others had to be cremated and smuggled out of Mexico. Back home, a father returns home to find little in the way of solace from the people he was counting on -another ordeal awaited-facing life-and God- without the son he loved.
Back to Tonic is a musical term where a chord progression resolves that in-stability created within itself by returning to itself in its very root — Tonic is that note that defines the composition´s key.
It´s also the true story of a man whose teenage son Jake is tragically cut down despite an extremely promising life ahead of him, while on a missionary trip to Mexico. A brutal head on collision that took the lives of six people. This is the story of a man of deep Christian faith who reads the bible passionately and whose faith begins at one level and has to deepen to reach new heights after the shocking pain and loss.
It was only after the funeral back home that the
difficult journey to healing could begin... a journey instructive for all.
A STORY DECADES IN THE MAKING
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