BRIAN BOYLE: LAZARUS

"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." - Joseph Campbell 

All that thinking and pondering on the what-if scenario’s only stirred up another question – why was I saved? Then, it hit me. I didn’t have anymore questions. I knew then on, what my purpose in life finally was. I am trying to live each day to the fullest and motivate and hopefully inspire other people. I have been labeled "Lazarus-like" because God brought me back to life. To inspire even more, I successfully completed the Steelhead 70.3 half-ironman race in Michigan a while ago. And, I was given the inspirational athlete media slot to compete in the 2007 Ford Ironman World Championship where my race footage was broadcasted in the Ironman show premiere as the main feature.

When God wants to restore a man, He doesn't restore to status quo. No. He restores up to seven times more. For instance, Job got double for everything - wealth, children, position, possession - he lost. For a lost baby, God gave David a king: the wisest,

BRIAN BOYLE: WHY ME?

"If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life." - Arthur Ashe

Do you sometimes get agitated, and heartbroken when seemingly incomprehensible things happen to you? Meanwhile you're a born again, God-fearing, neighbour-loving patriotic citizen of your country? Do you try to ask, "Why me?" Well, for most of people, they have been through so much 'badness' that they have been advised, like Job, to just curse God and die.
My name is Brian Boyle, and this is my story.

A month after I graduated high school, I was was involved in a near fatal car accident with a dump truck, on my way from swim practice. The impact of the crash ripped my heart across my chest. Shattered my ribs, collapsed my lungs, damaged every single organ. My kidneys and liver failed, removed my spleen and gall-bladder. Lost sixty percent of my blood. I was in a coma, on life support, for over two