As a petroleum engineer, marathon runner, backpacker, aggressive reader, teacher and writer, Berry Simpson has an avid love for learning. His experiences of a life lived for a purpose of teaching can be easily identified by all ages in his writing and speaking style. Berry is a published writer in Runner Triathlete News, Inside Texas Running, Rundown, Footnotes, Runner s World, Baptist Standard Online, and Successful Marriages Online. Berry also writes a weekly essay entitled Journal Entries. Born in Big Spring, Texas, Berry has a degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. He served on the Midland City Council for 13 years and is a deacon at First Baptist Church Midland, where he teaches a young-adult newly-married Bible study class, leads a weekly men s study group, and plays trombone in the church orchestra. He has been in love with his wife Cyndi for over 30 years, and as a result, they have a son Byron, daughter Katie, son-in-law Drew, and new granddaughter Madeleine.

Retreating With God is Berry’s second book.

The photo above, Berry and Cyndi Simpson, in the Rocky Mountains National Park near Estes Park, Colorado.

The photo at right is Berry hiking toward camp through a mountain hail storm in the Pecos Wilderness, northeast of Santa Fe, New Mexico.