God Made Me from Spare Parts book cover featuring an illustration of an escalator stairway to heaven in shades of blue. Clouds on each side of the stairway and a figure at the top facing the light. A beachball at the base of the escalator stairway.

About the Book

In God Made Me from Spare Parts, Tji transforms personal catastrophe into thirty dreamlike encounters with the divine. Written while grieving his father's death and stranded far from home, these modern parables step outside predictable comfort. Instead, they offer something stranger and more fulfilling: a God who flies His plane with one hand and admits He crashed when He was young. A God who keeps a drowning man company rather than pulling him out. A God who shows up in a Hawaiian shirt to explain that half a wasted life, connected to the half that remains, still makes a whole.

Each parable is brief, but none is small. Together they dismantle the fears that quietly govern daily life: the terror of dying with unfinished work, the shame of an imperfect body, the paralysis of a door with no handle, the grief of watching a good man die too soon. The humor is real, the sorrow is real, and the wisdom arrives sideways, the way it tends to when it actually lands. This is not a book of answers. It is a book of better questions, asked in the dark, by someone who needed them badly enough to write them down. A perfect companion for readers seeking fresh perspectives and self-empowerment.

Preview the Book

God Made Me from Spare Parts - Judgment parable, Page 52 from the book with an illustration by Tji.
God Made Me from Spare Parts – Fear of Dying parable, Page 2 from the book with an illustration by Tji.
God Made Me from Spare Parts - Mourning a Loved One parable, Page 60 from the book with an illustration by Tji.
God Made Me from Spare Parts - Living a Full Life parable, Page 40 from the book with an illustration by Tji.
God Made Me from Spare Parts - Faith parable, Page 16 from the book with an illustration by Tji.
God Made Me from Spare Parts - Mourning a Loved One parable, Page 60 from the book with an illustration by Tji.

“Witty and wise, this small book is a treasure."

Deepak Chopra

“Here is a quick and easy way to get in touch with deep truth. "

Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God

"This book offers heartwarming spiritual wisdom to brighten and enlighten your life."

Marci Shimoff, NY Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason and featured teacher in The Secret.