Ronnie Lillard Aka Reconcile was Born and raised in Ft. Myers - Florida, an area in which a football scholarship is deemed as a one-way ticket to a better life. Reconcile grew up in a working class single parent home with a lot of tough love. Rec states: I’ll never forget the conversation me and my pops had when I was about in the 8th grade in which he said “You’re never gonna be nothing if you don’t get a football scholarship”. “From that day, that became my highest priority. I would jump fences to run sprints on the dimly lit high school field, stay late nights at the boys and girls club and stay after school in attempt to better my grades, I wanted out!”. Wanted out because home for Reconcile was an undesirable place. “My father was broken from a divorce that devastated the little finances he had and left his heart shattered”. “Me and my pops got into a lot of fist fights which ultimately ended with me being kicked out in the middle of the night. It was a low point for me because I felt like I had nowhere to go”. In high school Reconcile lived off and on with his grandmother, friends, and his girlfriend in a housing project in Ft. Myers, FL. In the midst of a many self-inflicted consequences and a string of bad decisions Reconcile found himself in handcuffs, courtrooms, and on probation. This is when he met David Astrada, a youth pastor who not only helped him while on probation but also poured his time and the love of Christ into him.