The Unopened Present
What life lessons do you want to teach your children? What if you don't live to communicate them?
PUBLIUS SPECIAL GUEST: Richard V. Battle, a fifth generation Texan, is a longtime Lone Star state business and community leader and award-winning author. His latest book is The Unopened Present.
Richard Battle asked himself those questions when he became a father for the first time at 45 years old. So, he wrote his six-month-old baby boy John a letter sharing 43 truths, based on Christian scripture, just in case he didn't survive to teach them to him.
Then, the unthinkable happened: Richard’s infant son died in his crib at just nine months old.
The Unopened Present reveals a father's love and the gift left behind by a life cut short. It expands on the letter
Richard wrote many years ago, filled with timeless truths in short, easy-to-read lessons to aid parents in teaching younger children and enable older kids to discover the wisdom in these life lessons on their own.
“It was important to me for my son to benefit from the lessons I had learned, without making the mistakes I had made,” says Battle, a father, media commentator, and award-winning author of ten books. "Unfortunately, we lost John in 1998, but my son taught me more than I had the time to teach him”, acknowledges Battle who offers his new book with a prayer that people find something in it to benefit them, their children, and family.
Signed copies of The Unopened Present are available at https://richardbattle.com. The new book is also available at Amazon.com, HeadlineBooks.com, and bookstores everywhere.
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Richard V. Battle, a fifth generation Texan, is a longtime Lone Star state business and community leader and award-winning author. His latest book is The Unopened Present.