Welcome to Your Journey of Self Discovery

My Story

Welcome to my web site. I am truly humbled that you would stop by and check it out. I would like to take this opportunity to let you know how this web site along with many other things in my life came to be. It all started on a snowy day in January 2005…

On January 20, 2005 while leaving work, I was involved in an automobile accident. I had driven not more than a hundred yards when the crash took place. A driver of a mini van turned left in front of me and we collided. I ended up sustaining an injury to my back and my car came within a few dollars of being totaled out by the insurance company. Anyway it was this incident that would change the direction of my life forever.

This one incident started me on a freefall that would take me years to get out of. Over the course of the next few months my life would be thrown into one chaotic mess after another. Because of this I would lose the two most important priorities in my life. I would lose my job and within weeks my marriage was over. Once that happened I went in to total depression. Over the next year I decided that I would make a fresh start come January 2006. My wife and I were now divorced and I was working at a job making less then twenty five percent of what I used to make. So I felt this would be the time to pick myself up and restart my life.

However as things go this did not happen. I was still depressed and the holidays did not help any. January came and went and so did the next few months and I was still depressed. I came to the one and only conclusion I could thing of to end all the pain. I decided I was going to take my own life. So over the next few weeks I planned everything out accordingly. I donated a bunch of my stuff to charities and made plans for the big day. I never let on to anyone that this was happening. In fact my friends had no idea what I was contemplating. I continued to be my usual jolly self as not to let on.

As the day that I had chosen approached, I continued life as normal. Then the day arrived and I was ready. I was prepared to finally end all the pain. During that night I would have the most realizations that one man could have ever have. I would have a one on one encounter with God. At a moment of doubt about what I was doing I asked God for help one last time. It was at that moment I caught a glimpse of something. Lying on its side against the wall was a poster that once hung in my home. My ex wife had bought it a few years back. What it was doing there I do not know. I had donated most of that stuff to charity. Anyway I went over to it and looked at it. It was a poem. I read through it and began to cry. I new then that God was sending me a message. The poem was Footprints in the Sand.

From that moment on I knew God was by my side through any situation. I ended up writing some of my own poems that night. Eventually those poems along with a few others would end up in my first book. The story of how that first book came to be is another moment in my life where God let me know everything was going to be all right.

You see, I had put my poems together into little books and I gave those away as Christmas presents in 2006. It was inexpensive, but was personal. My friends suggested that I maybe I should send them to a publisher to see what might happen. So a few months later I got everything together and I sent them off to a publisher. Then one day I was in the shower (excuse the visual) and I was talking to God. I asked God if my life was ever going to get any better? It was then that I could hear Him speak. Though He said not a word, but I could understand everything He was telling me. He told me that my life was going to change for the better. He couldn’t tell me when, because I had not lived it yet. He said it may be from a piece of mail I receive or maybe somebody I meet on the street, but my life was going to change. So with that I smiled and took him at His word.

I reached down turned off the water and took one step out of the shower when my phone rang. I hurried to dry off, wrapped the towel around me and ran to the phone. I answered it and the caller asked if this was Rick Dorociak. First thing I thought was “bill collector” and then I calmly said yes it was, and they said this is the publisher that I had sent my manuscript to and they would like to publish my book. I jumped for joy. I was so amazed and overjoyed. Oh by the way, I sent my manuscript to the publisher on March 8^th and received the call from the publisher five days later on March 13^th. So I guess did know my life was going to change for the better!

Over the next few years I would start a web site and write another book. As time progressed I would add another web site and start some thoughts on a third book. Even though things were going okay, I was still not moving as fast as I thought I would by now. Then in May of 2007 God came into my life again. I had not seen my family in years. Our relationship had become strained (because of me) and we lost contact. Out of the blue I hear God tell me to get in contact with my family. So being from God I did not everywhere and she went to get my brother. When he came on the phone he told me that question it and I called my brother at his office. Someone answered and I said can I talk to Mike. Then they asked who may I say is calling and I told her it was his brother Rick. I could almost hear her start to cry. She said Rick they have been trying to find you my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and it is not good. Because God told me to contact my family I was able to speak with my mother for the first time in years. My mom passed away two months later on July 29^th 2007.

I had sent a copy of my first book down to my brother so he could show my mom. I had thanked her (and my brother in the back). She was so proud. Then one day my brother told me he had changed his life because of an author he had met. I asked who it was and he said Neale Donald Walsch. I told him to look in the back of the book and you will see Neale’s name in there. He was shocked. Since them my brother and I have grown closer. And as for Neale, I have had the opportunity to meet with him a few times. In fact he inspired my newest book and even gave me part of the title for it.

So now I have three books published along with this web site. I do seminars and I also do one on one sessions with people. Thanks to God I have found my true calling in life and now what my purpose is. There is a lot more to my life, but I believe my real life started on that snowy January day when a crash would change my life forever. We all have that one incident in our lives that changes our course of direction. That was mine, what is yours? Email and let me know. I look forward to hearing from you. Email me at www.WhenGodAnswered@aol.com. Thanks for reading some of my life story and I hope you enjoy the site. Stay blessed.