Torn between the little boy within and the womanizer he had become, one day Ian Gold hears the voice of God say, "You have been useless to me!" In response to God's rebuke, Gold makes a life changing decision to walk away from the National Football League (NFL).In "Plant | Water | Grow", Gold takes readers on the journey of a lifetime as he offers readers a bird's-eye view of his transformation from a love starved little boy, to a sex starved Pro Bowl Linebacker in the NFL, to the purpose driven man he is today.Gold's transparency is sure to captivate the hearts and minds of readers as he recounts the heartache, rejection and loneliness he experienced as the middle child of four boys raised by a single mother, candid and explicit accounts of sex, lies, deception, hurt and pain from his four years at The University of Michigan and eight year NFL career, along with his ultimate self-discovery---being useless to God.Despite satan's desire to use him, and his many indiscretions, this detailed account of Ian Gold's first thirty-three years of life, is sure to illustrate the unrelenting, undying, unfailing, unconditional and everlasting love of Jesus Christ.