Life Goes On

Okay, where do I start? It's been 13 years since I wrote on this blog. So many things both positive and negative have happened. To be honest I don't want to share anything negative on this blog so I will keep those things to myself. I DO want to share the positive things I've experienced. I may share some struggles I go through but I'll try to keep that to a dull roar.

...and yes, I know I should not share such personal things about myself online so just know that if I share it I either don't mind you knowing it or it's of no major significance to me to share. Cool? Cool. Lets start with the events of July 31st 2026. I was at work driving the Waterfront Shuttle in Seattle during the Fifa World Cup series of games. I am still not sold on soccer. YES, lady from Italy with your large Italian family in tow, I said "SOCCER". In YOUR country (who, lets not forget, sided with the Nazis of all people) it's called "futbol". In MY country, The United States of America, we call it soccer! Why? because we already have a sport called "football" & it would be dumb to have two sports franchises both called football. So in order to distinguish the two we gave the two different sports two different names. Why is this difficult for you to grasp?! {SIGH} My apologies. I kind of went off on a little tangent. Back to the events of July 31st, 2026, I was transporting my riders to the Fifa game soon to take place at [REDACTED] Field when I recieved a phone call from my doctor. It was a call I was expecting but not the information I wanted to hear. I had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. I'm not sure what the doctor expected me to say but I replied, okay. I really didn't know what to do. As a Christian had it been someone else I would have immedeately started praying for them as I have done many times before & that with confidence, faith, & pleading on their behalf! ...but now it was me recieving the news. It was me in need of prayer. What do I do? I did pray and ask God to heal me. I took the reccomended steps of diet change to heart various and sundry other things that I should try like black seed bitters, et cereta, et cetera, But the first thing I did was what the word of God instructs us to do. I messaged my Pastor and told him my diagnoses & in the Spirit of James chapter 5:14-15, "14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." I then went on trying not to think abiout it too much. So naturally it became my all consuming thought processes. I did spiral a little but then I stopped myself. I also joined a Reddit group that is full of people in the same or simmilar situation but I haven't been back to talk with them much because...depressing. Then I began to think of dying & realized I have wanted to go for a long time now. From the very day I got saved, I wanted Jesus to take me out of here. I hate it here! I tire of being on this planet. I want to be in Heaven with my Lord & Saviour. Then my thought switched to am I being a good steward of the Lord? I feel like I should be or should have done something more for God seeing as how He left me here to be an example of the believer. Then the enemy of my soul stepped in and tried to wipe me out, he is still trying. Me being hard headed as I tend to be I'm not folding for him and his antics. Jesus Christ is my Lord and Saviour. When I prayed and asked to be saved HE was the one who answered!! Not any of those other gods that people claim 'are gods too'. Nah, they are demonic destractions! ONLY JESUS CHRIST CAN SAVE US. HE SAVED ME, FORGAVE ME OF MY SINS & TURNED MY LIFE RIGHT AROUND LEADING ME IN PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!! There is salvation in no other! He has brought me a long, LONG way and I believe HE will carry me home to be with HIM when the time comes whether that is sooner or later. It is my ferverent prayer that I will be found worthy to enter into HIS Kingdom, HIS glory! So...I have removed the distractions. I am setting my time aside to pray and read my bible. I am focusing my life in a direction that is one that resembles a completly healthy person planning to serve his Lord until he is at least 87 years old. Jesus, I have not been the perfect servant but I'll keep living for YOU, believing in YOU, seeking YOU, & looking to YOU for however long I have left on this earth. Just like my mother sang in her hospital bed as my sister & I sat with her & the Holy Spirit came down so thick in the hospital room that I had to stop what I was doing & stare at her, Jesus...walk with me:https://youtu.be/BWsXJl96tBw