Dave Walker

My first piece was an article that I wrote for Boys' Own Magazine, a Canadian publication with a readership of over a million. I was sixteen and had just climbed Kilimanjaro. I wrote about that and won first prize in the magazine's competition. Then I went dormant for over forty years while I concentrated on becoming a doctor and then practicing as one. When I retired in 2009, I wrote articles for SA Country Life and then my first book, God in the ICU.

For my book, God in the ICU it was easy. There were incidents from working in the Intensive Care Unit that lived with me throughout my career. These were cases where God had come through in amazing ways in response to prayer. I used an autobiographical approach to have a time line on which to hang these stories. For my novel, I had a basic idea of where the story was going and the story just grew organically from there as I wrote. It was exciting to see the story take on a life of its own as I work on it, Some days I'd come out of my office and say to my wife, "You'll never guess what happened to Jason (the main character) today!". It is huge fun.
After I had written God in the ICU, I had numerous requests for more stories. That is when I decided God was prompting me to write another non-fiction book and Prayer, Medicine and Miracles was born. It was a little more difficult to write than God in the ICU. I wanted to show that God's miracles are not always spectacular, though they are no less supernatural. Sometimes He uses us to perform His miracles.I have examples where I had to use all my expertise, but when I combined that with prayer, God gave me divine guidance and worked far above and beyond what medicine alone could accomplish. Judging by the feedback I've received, I think I have accomplished that.