He invited this man, named Colin, to come to his dad’s group – ‘The Bus Wi Nae Wheels’. There was a man in Bridge of Weir, who like Nathan, struggled with life controlling substances. If I hadn’t met Nathan I don’t know where I would have been today. He sent a complimentary message about Nathan, after his death and said, Hi David I would like to thank Nathan and you for everything you have done for me on my Christian walk. The man did and has been sober for a good number of years now. Nathan met up with him and asked the man to come to his dad’s meeting (a journey in faith support group). There was a man who moved into Kilmacolm who had a reputation as a Greenock hard man. His sense of his own brokenness caused him to reach out to those who were also broken. Nathan once said that his siblings, Natalie, Benjamin and Bethany would never need God like he did because they were not broken. I’m interested if you’ve sat with the broken’. Helping the lost and brokenĪ statement that sums up Nathan is, ‘I’m not interested if you’ve stood with the great. Shortly after Nathan’s funeral in February 2020, a Church Minister sent me a photograph of an inscription carved on the wood in a courtroom in the Greenock Sheriff Court. It will also tell you of the amusing things that he did and said, or some at least, as well as recorded comments others made about Nathan. This additional read will tell of how Nathan on many occasions reached out to people in desperate need, those he saw lost and broken like himself.
I guess he would have seen it as, ‘blowing his own trumpet’.
However, there was another side of Nathan that many others saw, but he either did not see, or did not want to mention in his book. It also tells of his roller-coaster ride of a life. Nathan’s book written by him, tells how he felt growing up. For Nathan to have written this book over a period of 10 plus years and never to have lost sight of his dream to have it published is remarkable. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Borderline Personality Disorder were at least two issues he had. This book has been written by Nathan, who suffered from mental health problems from a very early age. This book has been published in honour of our son, husband, daddy, brother, nephew and friend. How many of us reading this book have had one written or published? Not many I expect. Although he never lived to see his dream fulfilled, it has. His dream was always to have the book on his life, that he had written, published. NATHAN DAVID ARCHIE CONNELL, sadly passed away on the 27 th of January 2020, aged 34.
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