Called Out of Nowhere · A Memoir
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You read about a coffee cup, a coal miner's hands, a report card, two quiet words, and a launch-morning prayer. The memoir tells the rest. I'd like to send you the first three chapters, free, before the book releases.

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Called out of Nowhere

When God interrupts a life you thought you built yourself
Shawn Whitson
Inside the first three chapters

The prologue and three chapters, exactly as they'll appear in the book.

If the plan felt like a conversation, this is where the conversation started. A Tuesday in Scottsdale. A town of seventy. A father who answered every question with the same three words.

  • Prologue
    The Morning God Interrupted My Coffee
    December 2022. A half-drunk cup of coffee, a tired prayer, and a voice that changed the title of the book.
  • Chapter One
    God Doesn't Call the Qualified. Thank the Lord for That.
    Why the list of reasons you can't might be the best thing on your application.
  • Chapter Two
    Population: Seventy (And That's Counting Generously)
    A country kid, a town you could miss at highway speed, and the start of a story nobody was betting on.
  • Chapter Three
    My Father and the Three Words That Built My Life
    Jerry Whitson. A coal miner's hands, a prison camp in Korea, and "Figure it out, son."
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Shawn Whitson
About the author

A country kid God kept interrupting.

I grew up in a town of seventy people in East Texas. I almost failed English four years straight, never went to college, and have spent more than thirty years building things I was not qualified to build. Every one of them started with an interruption I did not ask for.

Sharee and I have been married for more than thirty years. We have three grown children and four grandchildren, and that is the life this book was written from.

Nobody warns you that the biggest moment of your life will pick an ordinary Tuesday to show up.From the prologue
Your answer

He isn't asking if you're qualified. He's asking if you're willing.

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