Mike remembers the suicidal thoughts that ran through his mind the day he buried his family members. He had no desire to live, yet somehow the values his mother and father had instilled in him over the years kept Mike from taking his own life.

“I was taught that suicide, you can’t get forgiveness for, taking yourself out like that,” Frazier said. “I would never see them again, my problem would just be beginning, if I take myself out.”

For years, Mike lived in limbo. He didn’t want to live, but he couldn’t die. All the while, one question haunted him, why?

“I would ask God, ‘Why are you doing this to me?’” Frazier said. “ And He wouldn’t talk to me. It was like, I couldn’t hear nothing. My link that I had to God was my mom and dad. I had been in church all my life, but

I hadn’t really had a personal relationship with God.”

Mike Frazier had no idea what he was supposed to do and who he would talk to. At the time he felt abandoned. To make things worse, on top of all his grief, Mike’s extended family accused him of setting up the accident for the insurance money.

“I was broke down,” Frazier said. I found myself a many nights, a many days, on my back. When you’re on your back, you’re looking straight up. What’s up? He said, “God, I don’t have nobody. You’re the only friend that I have right now. I think you’re the only person that really, really cares about me. Can I be your friend?”

Mike recalls calling out to God and asking,

“Will you hang out with me?

This time, God responded. God spoke to Mike and said,

“I’ve never left you. I was with you. I was actually the one that pulled you out of the car. I was with you when you was riding around, wanting to take yourself out, I never left you. You left me. So I’m here.”

“I was broke,” Mike said. “He accepted me.”

Mike began a new journey in life and with God.

“I saw him get deeper with God,” Robert said. “It was no longer his parents’ God. He became Mike’s God, and the center of his joy and the reason of his existence.”

Mike was in the process of putting his life back together. But it was during a church service that he discovered his life’s mission.

The pastor preached a sermon called, “Forever the victim. I don’t think so.” The pastor called Mike out and ministered to him.

“Something clicked,” Frazier said. “It was like a light just came on. And I realized that I had a purpose. A very unique purpose. I felt like I was a victim, but I will not be a victim always.”

It was then Mike understood that he could survive through this. He got up one morning and just started going places, started living. He felt okay to smile again.

“My mom and dad would want me to smile again,” Frazier said. “My daughter would definitely want me to smile again.”

Realizing he had a story that others needed to hear, Mike created a website called “Surviving the Storm.” And without any promotion, people began posting their own stories of grief and sharing how Mike’s story had helped them. Seeing the power of his testimony. Mike decided to write a book.

“My goal for the book is to reach as many people as I can,” Frazier said. “I want people to read the book and say, “Oh, my God. You are real.” Because if God wasn’t with me, I wouldn’t be here talking to you today. I want them to realize that the same God that pulled me through can do the same thing for them.”

Many people wonder if Mike feels uncomfortable talking about losing his family, yet he doesn’t.

“I get strength the more and more I talk about it. The more strength God gives me, because I feed off of telling the testimony, seeing it strengthening others,” Frazier said.

The bridge where the Frazier family lost their lives is now dedicated in their memory.

“Thirteen years ago that happened, and each day I never forget it,” Frazier said. “Every morning I get up I thank the Lord for me being here, and I just ask Him to let me make my mama and daddy proud of me, because I know they’re looking at me now. “

Mike misses his family terribly.

“I’m going to forever miss them,” Frazier said. “I still love them, and I will never forget my mother, I will never forget my daddy, I’ll never forget Courtney, I’ll never forget Jade. I will never forget Sandy. I will always hold them close to my heart.”

Mike hopes his story will help others.

“If my life, if me surviving and me losing my parents, if it ends up drawing someone closer to God and it ends up changing someone’s life, then that’s where the comforting part comes in at,” Frazier said.

Today, Mike has a message of hope for those who are trying to make it through the storms of life.

“This storm, too, will pass,” Frazier said. “The same God that gave me the strength to bear the pain of losing five close, close people to me, He can give you the same strength to go through what you are going through.”