About the Book
A powerful Christian Testimony of childhood trauma, a life-changing injury, disability, marriage, ministry, and the sustaining love of God.
Have you ever wondered where God is when life falls apart?
Mike Shultz had plans. He was young, strong, adventurous, and preparing for a future that seemed wide open. Then, two days before Christmas in 1980, while working seventy feet up in a tree, Mike cut the rope that held him and fell to the frozen ground. He was nineteen years old. The accident left him in a coma, fighting for his life, and eventually paralyzed from the chest down.
But Mike’s story did not begin with the fall—and it did not end there.
In You Can't Stop Love, Mike shares the raw and deeply personal story of growing up in an abusive home, being forced to live on his own at sixteen, wrestling with faith, surviving a devastating spinal cord injury, and learning how to rebuild a life he never expected to live. Through painful recovery, isolation, depression, broken relationships, medical battles, marriage, fatherhood, ministry, and unexpected joy, Mike discovered one truth that held firm when everything else changed:
The love of Jesus cannot be stopped.
This honest, hope-filled memoir is not a polished story about a perfect life. It is the testimony of a man who has faced suffering, failure, fear, anger, loss, and physical limitation—and found God faithful in the middle of it all.
Discover:How God’s love can sustain a person through trauma, disability, and deep disappointment.What it looks like to rebuild life after traumatic diagnosis, grief, rejection, and shattered plans.How faith grows stronger when healing does not come the way we expected.The power of marriage, family, friendship, prayer, and Christian community in hard seasons.Why your worst chapter does not have to define the rest of your story.More than a memoir about surviving a tragic accident, You Can't Stop Love is a story of redemption, resilience, humor, honesty, and grace. Mike’s journey reminds readers that God does not waste pain, that brokenness is not the end, and that even when life takes a path we never would have chosen, His love is still present, still working, and still enough.
Whether you are facing suffering, living with disability, grieving broken dreams, walking through a hard marriage or family season, or simply wondering if God is still writing your story, this book offers encouragement for the road ahead.
Your story is not over. God’s love has not let go. And no matter what has happened, You Can't Stop Love.
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