My Religion

THE ONLY THING IMPORTANT IN THE WORLD IS ONE OF THESE THREE:

God,

No God

 

and

of course

Cheeze-its

 it's easy to find a Religion that fits to one of these molds Endless Knowledge, Despair, and Non-Sense.

i choose God, and I believe through a prayer Jesus gave his disciples we can attain infinite knowledge and understanding.

"Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name.

Your kingdom come,

your will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our wrongs,

as we also have forgive those who wrong us.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, 

and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. 

Amen"

... and to those who don't know God, I hope you find ALL there is to know about He.

2/21/2011

A great day started with my car stalling out on I-81 heading to my work and I had a horrible stomach ache from the Hardee's I ate.

Stalled out on the side of the road my car decided to not want to work anymore, So I waited, prayed, waited and prayed some more, and eventually my car didn't start but 2 girls stopped at the end of the exit and rolled up to me asking me if I need help, I politely passed them on their way. Another man came and was insistant on helping so I let him.

We tied our Jumper cables together via battery to battery and I once again tried to start my car, nothing happened, a cop came and tied his box up to my batter and once again nothing happend just clicking noise. I knew something was wrong it's been messing up for a few weeks, but today it just gave up on me. The guy kept insisting on giving me a ride into town "Valley View" so I let him.

I ended up taking my skateboard, laptop, wallet, and other necessities with me, I was on my way to find a phone to call work. I got to an open parking lot and said "I'll get out here," I was insistent on getting where I needed by myself. I realized I need to be self-sufficient.

I went called work, got hours for tommorow, grabbed some Tazo Chai Tea, headed on to go to my car.

On my way to my car I came in front of the Lifeway Christian store and a lady was with her son, I decided "i jsut did a trick behind them, I might as well do one in front of them." (on a skateboard) I did a nose manual over a few cracks, I leaned forward too far and my backpack enforced the momentum forward until I was in a running sprint getting ready to dive face first into the pavement, as I tried to outrun my fall I realized I was going to fall so I ran straight into the back of a car headfirst and scraped my knee on the ground.

As I lay there, quite thankful to be alive, the lady came up to me and said "O.M.G. are you okay? It looked like you face planted into the car." I got up with a confident "I'm Okay" face and headed on.

I realized that where I parked and where my skateboard was going to take me was too far away, so I went back to find a wi-fi connection.

After finding one I played on the internet hooked up with a cab and took it back to my car, only the cab didn't take me to my car, he actually took me about 2 miles past it saying "I can't stop on the side of the road."

I walked to my car encouraged by singing music and got there, for about thirty mins read about my car, got my stuff, packed my bag, locked my car and headed out. The world seems very big when you walk along the interstate. I traveled lots of miles until I got to plantation road, Decided I was going to call a cab and have it drop me off at my house. I drove the cab to my house in Salem, called a tow guy got picked up by a tow guy, headed to pick my car up, toed the car back to my house, got home, got a chicken bake with potatoes set up and now I am typing this...

Story Behind the Photo

From the perspective of "The Man"

Hi, I didn't have the easiest life growing up, that's for sure. I learned a lot about life by the way I was treated and you can say that I toughed it out. I ended up making it though, through life that is... I had a family, made a career for myself and was gifted by God to breath. Yeah, were all alive and able to breath, but my story is different.

I don't really need to tell you much but I can say I'm from a divorced family and they all hate each, other you can say it's dysfunctional, but that would be an understatement it's actually quite upsetting to talk or think about but I still believe it will all come to good terms.

Luckily I met a lady and Had a boy, I didn't stay with the lady and I did run from the fact, but eventually I re accepted my responsibility, His name is Mike and he has made a man of himself. I wonder if he knows I think about him? After having Mike with my Ex, I met Kim, Kim and I had a Baby Girl and A Baby Boy, Taylor and Rio.

We didn't eat from Silver Spoons, our family, but we were blessed to be able to make it from the slums in Florida to the Beautiful East Coast of Virginia Beach, in a quiet town named Pungo. In Pungo our kids went to a wonderful Elementary School and My oldest boy was able to work with me and go to High School where he excelled exceptionally well.

Our family had a lot of problems but none the less we continued to strive through and make it like the usual family does.

In about 2002 my Wife and I were arguing whether or not we were going to have Health Insurance, luckily the decision was made that we would keep insurance, the Victory saved us for what was Financially awaiting ahead of us.

My Family and I just moved into a new House and I was out one day Clear Cutting the back of the house which was filled with an Acre of Bamboo shoots, long hours I worked with a machete and my arms cutting down this Woodland to open up more room for yardage. Something happened while doing this because I ended up getting sick and was out, but of course "I'm tough..." I endured it and went to the hospital and got a flu shot then came home.

The week following the Hospital visit changed the course of mine, and my families life forever.

I didn't get better from this flu shot, I actually got worse and started getting Purple Spots all over my body...

Finally after much defeating of Pride and really, Desperation we made our visit to the Hospital and my life would never be the same.

I am not too sure what happened but All I remember is I wasn't the same. From the perspective I was told they tested me for everything from Anthrax to Aids to the Common Cold, the stupid "Nurses" who gave me the flu shot ruined my life. You see, the shot I got actually ruined my blood samples and made my blood undiagnosable. In other words, they had no way of finding out what was wrong with me, I was just dying and they didn't know what was going on...


According to Doctors, and Family, I was put into a 6 week Coma where they tested, probed, Operated, Analyzed and tried to determine what was wrong with me. I had doctors come in from California to help me stay alive, it didn't work though, I died... Twice.

My wife stayed by my side the whole time from what I was told, anyone in there right mind would be able to understand how much Love was shown through this whole ordeal... Priests, Shaman's, L.E.D. lights many were praying, paying and working on me. For once in my life, I was the center of my world.

During this sickness I remember seeing a man in a dream, the man spoke to me, he had a large white beard and was radiant. All I remember is a blue background and the man said something to me, I'm not sure what it was, but he spoke to me. I later found out that this man was actually the man who died next to me while I was in a coma, I saw him in my coma, I think... People always wonder what's it like to die, did you meet God, but really all I remember is seeing the blue light and seeing that old man.

When I woke up from a coma I saw this picture on the wall, it was a bunch of tree's in some cold wintered forest, I was very attracted and saw the picture as something very beauituful. I wasn't positive what was wrong with me or why I was where I was but I do remember trying to move and I just couldn't. I had no way of moving my mind wanted to but my body was saying no. I don't know what was wrong but I remember seeing my wife, my sister's and that picture.

My wife eventually let my sister and my son come and see me. I remember thinking it was odd that I had children considering I don't even remember them. But as soon as the boy and girl came in, that is my seed of course all I could think of was how different they looked. My Son got fat, I told him "you got big" and my daughter all she could do was cry, so she left she couldn't handle seeing me. But my son he stayed and talked with me. I could see he was trying to be tough but he wasn't. He gave me a hug and so did my daughter before they left. I saw them eventually a few weeks later when I was outside for the first time in a long time and My feet were as black as coal.

My son came and said hey to me and acted like everything was all cool. He smiled and gave me great happiness to see me. He was very not o.k. but he still smiled as if he was. My daughter did the same, she smiled and acted like she was o.k. but I knew things were just off...

I later went through much rehabilitation and came to be able to run marathons and now run ultra marathons with the world that I was brought back into. My sister is doing her life, my son's are doing their life, and My wife is now divorced from me but is living her life. It's moving and I am alive and awake, thankful each day to be alive.

I am just one of many stories of people who have been literally redeemed to life. Look it up, Find it, Pursue it Truth that is.

Listening to Music and realizing how much others need to hear what I am listening to. I need to express God more and myself less.

"He must become Greater and I muss become less" translated "HE>I"

Glory, Glory.

Are you reaching, for anything? For something? Are you dedicated? Are you as free as you can be, in this blessed State of America? Yes, we are Free to Worship our Jesus, where in other places we are famined from him. Be blessed and Thankful, for he is Good.

sleeping in-the postal service

Freedom

Everyone want's to be free but is it really worth the cost?

We are American's and we base our lives on the concept of freedom, so of course we are going to say, Yes!

I just bought a room to live in apart from my family, I am 19 years old and the time has come for me to live on my own, which means all the necessities of life, and everything that was once given to me, will now need to be purchased by myself, and sustained upon me. Is this really worth it?

I ask myself the question a lot of times, is this worth it? I think about consequences, I think about where my life will be if I do this, my mind is a lot more matured in its thinking process then when I was a younger sprout.

I have to think about where my life is going, and how am I going to be sustainable when I am older, how is this going to serve me, what good will this do, is this beneficial to my life. These questions sometimes only have an answer of experience such as, can I live on my own? Well, I can answer that but the truth comes out when the rubber meets the pavement and you see what kind of car you really do have.

I have to think about what's my foundation, what holds me together, what keeps me alive? A lot of these questions help me to see where I am going and what I am doing correct or incorrect. I am beginning to realize how fragile decisions are and how fragile my weak life is.

Becareful if you think you stand, because you just might me sinking. The journey from your mind into your hands, is shorter than your thinking. It's a slow fade, when you give yourself away, it's a slow fade, when black and white turns to grey, thoughts invade, choices are made, a price will be paid when you give yourself away, people never crumble in a day. I have seen people crumble, I have watched lives and families detereorate, just ask me, post a question about it I have plenty of stories of people who gave into the world and are now paying for it, I have lived with it, I have seen it happen right in front of my eyes. Its real, it is a slow fade.


Slow Fade lyrics by Casting Crowns.

LIVE LIKE YOU WERE DYING

He said: "I was in my early forties,
"With a lot of life before me,
"An' a moment came that stopped me on a dime.
"I spent most of the next days,
"Looking at the x-rays,
"An' talking 'bout the options an' talkin’ ‘bout sweet time."
I asked him when it sank in,
That this might really be the real end?
How’s it hit you when you get that kind of news?
Man whatcha do?

An' he said: "I went sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,
"I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.
"And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,
"And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying."
An' he said: "Some day, I hope you get the chance,
"To live like you were dyin'."

He said "I was finally the husband,
"That most the time I wasn’t.
"An' I became a friend a friend would like to have.
"And all of a sudden goin' fishin’,
"Wasn’t such an imposition,
"And I went three times that year I lost my Dad.
"Well, I finally read the Good Book,
"And I took a good long hard look,
"At what I'd do if I could do it all again,
"And then:

"I went sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,
"I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.
"And I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,
"And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying."
An' he said: "Some day, I hope you get the chance,
"To live like you were dyin'."

Like tomorrow was a gift,
And you got eternity,
To think about what you’d do with it.
An' what did you do with it?
An' what can I do with it?
An' what would I do with it?

"Sky diving, I went rocky mountain climbing,
"I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fu Man Chu.
"And then I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter,
"And I watched Blue Eagle as it was flyin'."
An' he said: "Some day, I hope you get the chance,
"To live like you were dyin'."

"To live like you were dyin'."
"To live like you were dyin'."
"To live like you were dyin'."
"To live like you were dyin'."