In 2016 God spoke to David telling him to write a book and to title it Give and Take. God in his persistence convinced David to get started and this is the book. Along the way as God revealed to him what to write he was confronted with addressing the short-comings in his spiritual life and went through a maturing process in his own spirit and soul.
David A. Read grew up in a rural small town in Northern Indiana dividing his time between coaching Jr. high school teams, running his co-owned business as well as working for large corporations. After getting married and having three children with his best friend and wife God began qualifying him and pressing him to stop living for himself and begin to know the Lord more.
As Paul the Apostle wrote in Philippians 3:7-13 about all that he had gained he counted as loss being measured against knowing Jesus the Christ and yet realizing he had not yet obtained to this knowledge he continued to press forward toward that mark of knowing Christ and the power of his resurrection. So too, David, continues toward that mark amidst all the happenings and events of the world today always pressing forward amongst the trials and victories coming to know he is loved by
God, by Jesus, and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.