On Tuesday, American actor Omari Hardwick shared on Instagram about him as a 10-year-old boy that used to take long walks home to talk to God about traveling far from home.
"When I was about 10 years old I used to ask my mother to stop the car & let me out so I could walk the rest of the way home.....alone. I never told her, but I would use this time to talk to God & myself quietly, making stories up in my mind (ala my wildly & beautifully imaginative daughter) about far away lands," the actor wrote.
"I would ask Him if He wanted me to travel far away from home & to bring with me whatever stories I had. I kept asking Ma to allow this walk home faithful I would get this answer." He added.
The A-Team actor said that his prayers were answered by God, providing him guidance through the closest people in his life. As Hardwick looks back, he is still in wonderment that the conversations he had with God when he was a kid have resulted in real-life travels.
"God's answer was granting me tutelage from wise family members, from coaches, from teachers mastered in science & history, from hood kings mastered in life & hard knocks. His answer was loaning me pain, death, resilience, understanding, the passion of a kid, joy of a kid, and the power of a man who possesses ALL the above," he wrote in the post.
"I was born a proud little dusty Georgia boy who would write & run & dream my way into long walks. As much as I was assured & confident in God's answer as a YES....It will forever blow my mind He deemed my dusty boots strong enough & chilly enough to walk these stories ALL the way from my mother's car in Decatur to Monaco." Hardwick added.
This football player who later turned as an actor was raised by a Catholic mother and a father that attends Methodist Episcopal Church. As he was growing up, he alternated each Sunday to attend his parent's churches, according to the previous report from Indie Wire.
"I began to ask myself the question, 'what does God want me to do with my life,'" Hardwick recalled. "I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting." He added.
According to the actor, before he was convinced to take the drug dealer -James "Ghost" St. Patrick - character in "Power," it took some prayer and leaning on God. "Truth is: I was hesitant to say yes to this show initially. Perhaps it truly was an example of what it looks like when we run from our call, in this case, mine-to-be of high stature in this business," Hardwick wrote on Instagram.
