It was somewhere back in a far away time known as “1986″ that I sat listening to the “Slippery When Wet” album.

I remember sitting with my guitar and imagining my band and I playing Madison Square Garden.

I could see them and hear their applause so vividly.

I practiced somewhere around 6 hours a day, visualized and obsessed over my dream and did a heck of a lot of praying!

I don’t know what happened because it seemed like I fell asleep and some cruel bastard  switched me out with an almost 48 year old balding downgrade of the 21 year old Paul but . . .

I often think about how my prayer was never answered . . .

not through the lens of bitterness . . . through the lens of gratitude!

For starters, my wife and I have been together for 30 years (married 24 of them) There aren’t many famous marriages that make it that long. I would have lost out big time if I didn’t have Laura in my life!

I would not have the relationship I have with my 3 kids. They are the world to me and I couldn’t imagine life without them!

I would not have had the opportunity to own a business at a young age and . . .

Fail at a young age too!

Lose my cars and accumulate $60,000 in debt . . .

Then rebuild my life over the course of 18 years to the point . . .

that my prayer of being a rock star has me doing something much more meaningful . . .

Helping others become rock stars in their own right!

And that, for some crazy reason,  (that I never would have understood back in 1986)

makes me feel like a tremendous rock star!

Unanswered prayers often seem like denials when in fact . . .

They are opportunities for something better . . .

Which makes the perceived denial nothing more . . . .

Than a wonderful delay!

Today, I think I’ll put myself out there and thank God for that one and you . . .

For being the audience I so desperately wanted!

With respect and appreciation

Paul Castain

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