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What happens when a baseball coach who says he wasn’t qualified to write a book keeps hearing the same message from God over and over again? In this episode of The Curated Chapter, Coach Lloyd Skoda shares the heartfelt story behind Connecting With God In All Things — a book about faith, purpose, calling, and discovering that if something matters to you, it matters to God.

Coach Lloyd Skoda: I didn’t want to write a book. I wasn’t qualified to write a book, but God made it plain that I was supposed to write a book. 

Theme: The Crated Chapter. 

When God tells you to write a book, then you’d better write a book. That is just one of the lessons to be learned in this episode of The Curated Chapter. A chapter sized look at new books from independent authors like Coach Lloyd Skodawho you just heard saying he didn’t want to write a book, didn’t think he was qualified to write a book, but he did and it’s called Connecting With God In All Things. 

Coach Lloyd Skoda: The whole book is supernatural. It’s not natural.

Before we get too deep into what the book is about I want you to hear how it came into existence. 

Coach Lloyd Skoda: So I was preaching at our church on Wednesday night, and we had an elderly couple there that had been faithful. I’ve known them for years, they’re faithful to God. And I got through preaching and walked by them, and John and Linda Lancaster, and they said, Coach, you need to write a book. Now, my first thought was, I don’t want to write a book. I’m not qualified, the first thing, to write a book, and I’m not going to write a book. Well, so I was teaching school full-time then, and we were—school was going on, and the bell rang, and the kids were swapping classes. And so a young lady that I knew, she was a junior. I was teaching senior. She stuck her—there was a young man first that came—he was the first one in the room. He came in, sat down. Then a young lady stuck her head in the door. Kids were changing classes. She said, Coach, Lord tells you to write a book, you need to write a book, don’t you? I said, Emily, who are you talking to? She said, I don’t know. I just felt like I was supposed to say that. So we had class that period. The bell rang, and the young man, who was the only person in the room when she said that, he came up to me, why is it a ghost? He said, Coach. He said, I almost fell over backwards when Emily said that to you. She said—I mean, he said, God told me last week to tell you you’re supposed to write a book. So, yeah. So I had a coach who had been coaching with me 17 years. We were dear friends, and this was a kicker. He said, Coach, you want to hear a crazy story? Now, he didn’t know any of this was going on. And he said, you want to hear a crazy story? I said, well, I guess you want me to hear it. He said, there was this guy that God told him to write a book. He kept putting it off, said he didn’t want to do it. He got in a bad, a real bad accident where his leg had to be in traction. So he was bedridden. His leg was in traction. And God told him, he says, now you got time to write that book. I said, I’m on it right now.

You can tell right away that Coach Lloyd Skoda is natural born story teller. And maybe that’s part of the irony here. The man who says he wasn’t qualified to write a book ended up writing one filled with personal stories about faith, purpose, calling, and the belief that God is involved in every area of our lives.

Coach Lloyd Skoda  (It Matters) If it matters to you it matters to God.

That simple idea sits at the heart of this book. Coach Skoda be