Armstrong Road
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Just off the River Road in Gloucester was a dirt side road surrounded by forest and fields. I remember Mike Powell and Gary Wand taking us residents for walks there to get some exercise and fresh air. We would sing songs as a group or sometimes just talk amongst ourselves while we were walking. I would sometimes wake up in the late hours {while everyone was asleep ) and I would go outside unnoticed and walk by myself down the River Road towards Manotick and onto the Armstrong side road. There was no lights just complete darkness except for the stars or moon on a clear night. It was my go to place an escape or to be alone. I liked the quiet and tranquility of it and sometimes all you could hear was the crickets or frogs and see the fireflies dancing in the night. Reminded much like when I lived in Country for many years and enjoyed walking after dark, and even in the pouring rain. There was just something peaceful about it.
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Kirk McKenna was nineteen, and he was enjoying life. He had a small but close circle of guy friends, buddies, comrades. They lived every day as if it were their last. They had a lot of fun; they were adventurous and loved excitement, but they didn’t always make wise decisions.
It was August 1989 when everything started to fall apart for him. McKenna was at a house party where the host decided she wanted to have a séance. He wasn’t quite comfortable with it, but he was there making jokes and almost mocking it. It might have been that encounter, or his heavy drinking at the time, or sleepless nightlife fun, but whatever it was, things abruptly came to a halt for him.
In Amrstrong Road, he offers an account of some of the real-life events and experiences that took place in his life, a time when he felt the presence of Almighty God. In this memoir, McKenna tells how God showed himself in unique and powerful ways during the mostly lonely and dark journey. He seeks to offer encouragement to others, communicating that God is faithful even through the darkest times.
About the Author
Kirk McKenna came from humble beginnings from the east coast of Atlantic Canada, growing up in the country farmland and small town of Smiths Falls in Eastern Ontario. He now lives in Alberta. McKenna has a passion for life and a love for reading and writing since a very young age.