Blessings and Choices: The True Story of an Ordinary Man's Extraordinary Life

If your life turns out to be better than you ever imagined, is it due to free will or God's will? According to E. P. Rogers, it's both. In his moving and fearlessly honest memoir, Blessings and Choices, Rogers revisits the highs and lows of his personal life and his thirty-nine-year career in information technology at Mutual of New York. He takes a hard look at the effects of his own decisions-the good and the bad-and at the same time illustrates how God's grace provided him with more than a few lucky breaks. After growing up with an alcoholic father, Rogers lives recklessly as a young man and enters into a marriage that ends in divorce. A series of near-death experiences sent him a message he can't ignore-God has spared his life repeatedly so that he can become the man he's meant to be. In his thirties, Rogers decides it's time to get serious about achieving his goals: success at work, and the stable family he's always dreamed of creating. What happens next is an extraordinary story of blessings that exceed his wildest dreams. This book is Rogers's testimony of gratitude for the love he thought he might never find, the privileges of fatherhood, the chance to climb the corporate ladder, and the simple fact of being alive to experience it all. It's a meditation on personal responsibility and a heartfelt celebration of faith.

About the Author :
E. P. Rogers is a retired Chief Information Officer who resides in Syracuse, New York in the summer and Naples, Florida in the winter. He is married and has two sons. He spent 39 years in the Information Technology Department with Mutual of New York (MONY) which became The MONY Group when they went public in 1998. In 2004 MONY was sold to AXA Financial, a French company. He spent the last year of his career helping to facilitate the transition to AXA. Rogers received multiple recognitions in his career including from one from Insurance & Technology Magazine's one of the "Elite Eight CIOs" and one from Computerworld magazine's one of the "Premier 100 IT Leaders." Computerworld also ranked his department as one of the "100 Best Places to Work in IT" for five consecutive years. In 2003 he was recognized again by CIO Magazine as one of the top CIO's in the country. In addition to his commitment to The MONY Group, Rogers held various volunteer roles including chairman of the board of directors of INROADS, a not-for-profit organization that develops and places talented young people of color in corporate and community settings.. He was also on the Board of the Red Cross Blood Services of Central NY and was active in United Way of Central New York