Michael Brandon Williams

Michael Brandon Williams grew up the eldest of four in the piney woods of East Texas hunting, fishing, and seeing God’s indelible thumbprint in the character of His creation. As a teen, having witnessed the demise of his own family dynamic, he longed to someday father a family that would cling to a legacy of faith. Although he experienced what many would consider success in business and in church leadership, the feeling of inadequacy in sending two sons into the world was gripping. “Busyness” and church identity often took precedence over direct time with his children. The guilt of missing opportunities to speak into his sons really set in when they began leaving home for college.

After the loss of his late wife, Laura, writing became an outlet for seeking God’s will in what life would look like next. Brandon began learning more of God’s nature as a father as he witnessed firsthand how He provided daily through His word, His creation (people) and His Spirit. Although Brandon couldn’t wait to share this wisdom with his sons, they were now men. “I wrote The Trail because I felt paralyzed that I had not prepared my sons for what was to come. What father truly can?” The answer, he learned, was The Father...God.

Although guilt, inadequacy, grief and false identity attempted to cloud what were the familiar frames of his life, the Lord began healing and redirecting Brandon’s path. His goal in writing is to remind men of their true identity in Christ and the liberating truth that our Father “makes our paths straight” as we trust in Him (Prov. 3:5) regardless of past failures.

Brandon would find love again in Molly. Having met at Griefshare (a bible-based program for those who have lost loved ones) as they both had lost their spouses. Together they founded Many Mansions charity which “exists to provide life giving resources through Christ’s Kingdom with a focus on widows, orphans and single moms.” Brandon has served as a deacon and pastor and currently serves as an elder with StoneWater Church while also advising several companies and charities. He and Molly have five children in their blended family. For twenty years the father of a male-dominated household, he is now the lone male in an all-girl (wife and three girls) home…even the pets are female. Stay tuned.