The air force base didn’t have any beds for us when we returned so we were put into a suite in a four-star hotel. One afternoon, I went to our large hotel room in downtown Uban, Thailand. I walked into the spacious suite. Just then, God enveloped me, picked me up, and deposited me clear across the room onto the exact center of the king-sized bed.
Some life stories follow a straight line. Others move through unexpected turns, difficult experiences, personal discoveries, questions about faith, and moments that permanently change the way a person sees the world. “I Heal You With My Hands” by Robert J. Ackerman belongs to the latter. Proudly published by Citi of Books, this is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other major retail platforms.
Robert Ackerman was Director of the Pennington County Drug and Alcohol Task Force, Director of the Meade Street Halfway House, Director of the Western South Dakota Referees Association, Director of Keystone Ambulance Service, Director of the West Dakota Water Development Association. He was a Rockerville Volunteer Fireman for seven years. He coached a soccer team to win the South Dakota State Soccer Tournament. He volunteered and hung clothes at the Salvation Army for 2 years, and he has researched climate change for 30 years.
Presented as a deeply personal account of his life, the book brings together memories from childhood, military service, family struggles, spiritual experiences, personal beliefs, and reflections on the future of humanity. Ackerman himself acknowledges in the prologue that some timelines may not be exact because of his short-term memory loss, but describes the work as a true story drawn from his experiences.
“I Heal You With My Hands” stands out because it is more than a chronological account of one man’s life. It is an attempt to connect experiences that happened decades apart and understand them through a larger spiritual framework. From childhood adventures and military service to grief, recovery, religious questioning, the Bethlehem Cave experience, Edgar Cayce, reincarnation, healing, and environmental concerns, Robert J. Ackerman gives readers a remarkably broad portrait of the questions that have occupied his life.
The book may particularly interest readers who enjoy memoirs that go beyond conventional autobiography and explore questions of faith, purpose, consciousness, personal transformation, and humanity’s responsibility to the world around it. Ackerman’s story invites readers to consider where personal experience ends and personal interpretation begins, while following his own continuing search for meaning.
At its heart, “I Heal You With My Hands” is a story about a man looking back across a complicated life and trying to understand what those years were meant to teach him. From the memories of a boy in Rapid City to the experiences of a Vietnam veteran and the spiritual questions that followed him into later life, Robert J. Ackerman’s memoir offers readers a personal journey filled with difficult memories, extraordinary experiences, strong convictions, and an enduring search for connection.
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