My very first Post!

Let me tell you a story, a true story that will hopefully bless you and not bore you...

When Liz and I met I was all about myself. All I cared about was pleasing me and every once and awhile other people.

When I graduated from High School Satan really had an influence in my life. I did everything for myself, most of my later teen life I envied the world. I wanted the things that they had and wanted to give up the things I had. I spent my youth trying to be like the world, trying to dress like the world, talk like the world and even walk like the world.

Well, when you try to change the outside it usually comes from within first. Which is were it started in my life. I would slowly try to get away with things listen to inappropriate music for a Christian, say things that were unfruitful and so on. The day I graduated, that night, I did things that I regret still to this day. This would later turn out to be a milestone in my life and it definitely wasn't a good one. From that day on, I no longer served the Lord I served myself.

It was a long road that I traveled and it was a lonely road, even though from the world's point of view I had everything. When I look back on my life I see a couple of key people in my life that brought me were I am today. The first two being my parents, they were such a rock for me and they were always there for me, even when they knew I was so messed up that I didn't even know it myself. The third being Liz, she came into my life at a key moment, I was feeling so guilty for the way I was living and due to this I was so lonely. Liz at the time didn't even know that she had an impact on my life, but she did. She said some things to me just in passing that made me want to change the way I was living my life.

Then one day after we had been married for a couple of months and Liz was pregnant with Abigail, the Lord starting working in my heart. I tried and tried to change my wife and to make her do what I thought she was suppose to do, but much to my surprise nothing changed at least the way I wanted it to change. And then it hit me, who am I to try and change when I was so messed up myself. I remember asking the Lord to change Liz’s heart and to make her do this and that and then I thought....Lord forgive me, who am I to call you Lord I am not worthy to even say Lord. On April 15, 1995 that late afternoon I rededicated my life to Him and gave my life to serve Him in whatever way He asks.

I am not a perfect man or even close to being good, only by the Grace of Jesus I am where I am today. I thank the Lord for changing my life and for my family and wife I thank them for always keeping me accountable for what I do or don't do.