What is your definition of the word ?okay?? Take time and think about it. Yes, it is a simple word, but one which bestselling author Moses T. Alexander Greene hated the most growing up; mostly because of how it was used. A trust would be violated, overly harsh discipline meted out, or abuse calculatingly planned and executed, and the response to his primal reactions of anger and self-protection were always a cooing of ?It?s okay. You?re okay.? Okay taught him how to lie to himself about the realities of his life and begged him to become blind, deaf, dumb, mute, and lame to truth. Okay made him work hard...and kept attracting situations into his life in which he had to fight to prove his worth. Okay had no provisions for anything but neutrality and passive acceptance, making him a pauper to his own destiny. With greater transparency than he had ever experienced, Alexander Greene picked up from where the journey of his freshman offering, my proposal: nothing but a gracechild, ended and began to write. This time he wrote to be made free, to leave behind the wrestling, and to get closer to God. He stepped past pretense and camouflage and asked himself and God questions he needed answered in order to break through. "astounded that i am okay ( i?m mad as hell and GOD still knows my name): stories of those still waiting for the troubling of the water" is about knowing that now is your time to exhale every repressed emotion you?ve ever felt or discounted so that you can truly be okay. It is about redefining the definition of "Okay" to include ?to be mad as hell some times but to know that in those moments God still knows me." The characters of this groundbreaking text will encourage you to breathe past buried pains and see that whatever you have done or was done to you, you are not alone.