Michael spent over thirty years in the electrical and automation industry—managing teams, designing complex systems, and negotiating high-stakes contracts. His professional life was built on precision, performance, and self-discipline. But beneath the structure, the foundations were cracking. Addiction, illness, and spiritual exhaustion brought him to a collapse he could not outwork or outplan.

What followed was not a fix—but a slow surrender. Recovery did not begin with clarity, and redemption did not follow a formula. Through silence, suffering, daily disciplines, and the liturgical rhythms of his home church, grace—not achievement—became the axis around which his life began to turn.

His memoir, He Reached Down, is the product of that journey—a quiet, contemplative witness to the God who met him in his undoing.

Michael lives with his wife in Ohio. He writes and prays from the same quiet posture that shapes his spiritual life. He Reached Down is his first book.