July 2013
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find a job anywhere he applied. The profes-
sional predicament festered into an equally
burdensome emotional state and for a time,
Ott had lost faith in himself as well as hope
for the future. The depression was so severe
as to find him, one afternoon, looking over
the ledge of a high-rise in Waikiki and con-
templating where his body might land below
if he were to end his life. In that instance of
grim desperation, Ott was suddenly struck
by a new awareness, one that left him eval-
uating his values and priorities in terms of
what really matters in life. He thought about
the importance of family as well as the need
to strengthen his faith with the Lord by put-
ting it to exercise, and in a rare moment of
clarity, Ott made a pact to readily respond
to the first opportunity God put in his path.
Remarkably, he then received a visit from
his father who offered him an opportunity
to start an ambulance service back home in
Indiana. Ott’s father is a principal in a com-
pany that provides management services to
a variety of senior healthcare communities.
He explained to his son how community res-
idents traditionally rely on transport services
beyond the capacity of facilities to deliver on
their own, and perhaps this could be a good
professional opportunity for him. Besides,
the father advised, one of Ott’s close friends
from school had just completed EMS train-
ing and was also looking for a job. Though
it wasn’t anything that had formerly crossed
his professional considerations, Ott stayed
