We Walked, We Talked....

    God's really been dealing with me today, so much going on in Life right now, feeling the pressures of trials, failed accomplishments, victories and losses. Loved ones both missed and lost, gone on before us, awaiting our final victory. Just really praying that the Lord will see us through it all.

    It's tough when life is coming down around you, to sometimes see the light, and to know that it's all in His hands. I'm certain that He's there through it all. Guiding the way, but as we pray and ask what we will, just trying so hard to know and understand His Perfect will in it all. I definitely don't want to step out of line. It's such a late hour. Things just seem so very out of canter. Why do I seem to always slide down the other side of the Mountain, It's such a tough Journey up, just to trip and slide right back down. All the while striving to keep JOY in your heart, your Light shining and to skip along the way sharing the love you have so freely been given with others in your life.

    So forgive me today if I've let you down or stumbled anyone of you that I meet along Life's path. Praying God would give me the discernment that I could see the trials of others, the burden to pray, and the strength to bare their Cross with them, while not wallering in my own problems and trials.

   God Bless you all!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT JO

Late September 1988, another morning I wake up with God's grace the only sustaining substance left in my life. Somewhere around 4 am in the Morning, Ocala, Fla. Tears filling my eyes as I set up in my Bed contemplating another day at the Mobile Home Plant. It's PayDay, I begin to pray, knowing that God could not be happy with the place I was at in my Life. Lost, in a world of drugs and the Fast life.


   An audible voice speaks to me, I hear it as if it was setting next to me. "Don, this is the day you choose, your last and final call, leave this life behind or die within the weekend" .....  I set there crying calling out for "HELP"


    All that was left of my past life was a small box of family pictures tucked away under my bed, a few changes of clothes and a large pot in which I cooked my food in for the week.... I had traded all else in for the Lifestyle I had chosen to live in. All that was left was my life.... Would I trade it in too?  I was very alone, alone by choice; though.  Was God speaking to me?  Would I listen? Would I respond?


   I pulled out my box of Family Pictures,as I began to look thru them, memories of times past, both failures and victories, the love, support, good times and sad, raced through my mind and heart. Was it truly the End? Were my days here over? Mom, Dad, King, my sisters, my Son and his mother, brother,old friends,cousins,uncles and aunts. So many people that I had shared and cared for, thrown by the wayside and for what? I CRIED.... 

   I thought of my Mom now living in Mena, Ark. with my Aunt and Uncle, caring for my Granmom who was late in her years. No where to turn to, so many bridges burnt behind me, so many loved ones let down, decieved, lied too, and used. Was that me? Or was it the Demon that had taken control of my life? Who would I call? Who would care if I called?

   I walked down the street from my Boarding House room to the Nearest Payphone, Where I called Mena, Ark My Aunt answered, it was very early in the morning there, I explained to her where I was in life and that I needed Help. HELP

  Long story short, My Aunt Jo opened her heart, shined her Light and opened her home to recieve a Wretch like ME. God sends Angels into our lives.... My Aunt Jo is one of those Angels. She never forcefed me God, but She and My Uncle lived a Life in front of me that so touched me that God used them in a Mighty Way. I thank God for My Family, My Mom, my Brother My Sisters, Cousins and Aunts and Uncles, but today, I wanna say,

    Thank You Lord for my Second Mom! My Aunt Jo Ann
      Happy Birthday to a Very Very Special Person in My Life!
       God Bless You and Keep you.  

In 1987 God woke me on a friday morning, an audible voice spoke to me, as I sat up in bed that morning. Choices for Life or Death. It's a Long story and I plan to one day soon give my testimony of how God revealed to me His great love. A long Journey home....

     I'll begin today in 1992, Shortly after returning back to my hometown (Beaufort, SC) I was a NewBorn Christian, with God's love shining on my Life. The revelation of what I had been given so far shining in my Heart, and Changing me daily. However I was not where God wanted me yet. The last 4 years of my life had been a real struggle to overcome years of "Life in the FastLane" .

     God had truly Begun a work in me. There were family members and Friends along the way that had been a shining light in my life. Showing me that there was much to know about His World and the Kingdom to Come. Showers of Blessings.....  and the Manna fell, One Light after another, raining down around me, Signs, slowly yet constantly guiding me to THIS Truth that He has revealed in my Life. Thank You lord!

    One Spring Morning tho, a plumbing truck pulled up into the Parking Lot of the New Auto Body Repair buiseness I was opening. God had brought an Angel into my Life. Unkowing of what the future held or what would become of the meeting of this NEW friend meant in my Life! A Light, a beacon of God's Word and the Light that shined from this Life ....  I knew there was something More!

    Happy Birthday to my Light in the Darkness, Bro Kevin Keith! The Journey that God brought us through was long, riddled with both Pain, Sorrows, Defeats and Victories! I truly Love this Guy, and I thank the Lord daily for his testimony and witness of a God that cares and Loves and a truth that shall bring me to a body change!

   There is so very much to say and tell about this part of my life, and how God used this Brother to bring me to this day in my life, and in time I pray, if the Lord tarries I will share it all.  But,  today, I wanna say with all my Heart! I love you Bro Kevin, May you have a most awesome Birthday. Filled with all the blessings that Our Lord can shower upon you and your family!

 God Bless You!

You Tell on Yourself by the friends you seek,

     By the very manner in which you speak,
     By the way you employ your leisure time,
     By the use you make of dollar and dime.

You tell what you are by the things you wear,

     By the Spirit in which your burdens bear,
     By the kind of things at which You laugh,
     By the records you play on your phonograph.

 You tell what you are by the way you walk,
 
      By the things of which you delight to talk,
      By the manner in which you bear defeat,
      By so simple a thing as how you eat.

By the books you choose from a well-filled shelf,

     In these ways and more you tell on yourself,
     So there is really no particular sense
     In an effort to keep up false pretense,
     You tell on Yourself.


                                   Author Unknown.
   

Belleview, Fla.  Late september, 1997 A Boarding house, in the seedy side of town, 4:30 am

    Our plans sort of fell thru for this evening with the bad weather, we just felt checked to postpone things and reschedule for another night. All is well though. I'm really not sure if there's anything better or greater than a quiet evening at home alone with your Wife! Thank You Lord for my Wife and the Life you planted in me before the foundations of the world. Just relaxing, chatting, and contemplating the upcoming services with my Bestest Friend; My Rib: Lisa!

To Him the Honor, Praise and Glory!