Living His Dream
...and How He Helped Me Live Mine
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The Sand Mountain Reporter, our hometown newspaper, ran a large color photograph of my son, Zac Cannady, sitting tall and proud, headset atop his sandy blond hair, as he worked dispatch at the Albertville Police Department. Zac was wearing his blue golf shirt with a police badge on the front left chest and smiling, as he most often does, ear to ear. The caption read -- “Living His Dream”. It wasn’t the first time Zac’s dream had been a part of the local news. The Reporter published a story when he was seven years old in which Zac explained how he one day hoped to work for the police department; now he was doing just that and this amazing story had moved from dream to dream come true
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About the Book
Pastor Joey Cannady has written his first book to share the story of the life of his son, Zachary Andrew Cannady, who was born in 1986 with a severe birth defect known as spina bifida, which rendered Zac paralyzed. Joey has been inspired by Zac for the past twenty-five years and wrote this book from the principles he learned from his son over the past years. Zac was not supposed to live outside his mother’s womb, but twenty-two years later was working his dream job as a police dispatcher for the city of Albertville, in northeast Alabama, when a newspaper reporter did a story on him for the local paper. The title of the story was Living His Dream. In this article, Zac told the reporter, George Jones, that he was truly living his dream of working in law enforcement. After reading the article, Pastor Joey was inspired to write this chronicle of their lives together. May the writing of Pastor Joey and the story of his son’s victories and struggles to overcome life in a wheelchair inspire you, motivate you, encourage you to live your life and fulfill your dreams.
About the Author
Joey Cannady is the senior pastor of Solitude Baptist Church in Albertville, Alabama. He is married to his wife, Karen, of thirty years, and has two children, Zac, 25, and Cassie Jo, 22. Zac was born in 1986 with spina bifida, a birth defect that left him paralyzed from the lower chest down. Joey and Karen have been blessed be able to help raise Zac these past twenty-five years and see him through many difficult times. They have also been able to hear him say he is living his dream.