Be carefull what you ask for!

Garlic mortar first half of story

My family:

Emily, Kid’s mom dad in-laws Bro sis etc.

My early years

My mom, Venezuela

My Dad gringo went down to teach, met my mom

abuse, alcoholism, infidelity

a few good years a lot of bad years and this is why premarital counseling is so important.

Divorce

raised by a single mom she worked near 90 hrs. a week to support us.

I was left to my own devices, that did not end well.

Drugs, Sex, I was breaking 7 of 10 commandments almost daily

I moved to Fl with my Grand mother who was undergoing Chemo

started going to two churches

received Christ

asked God “What AM I TO DO?” he answered “feed my sheep”

King James Version Chapter 21

15 So when they had xdined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, aSimon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me bmore than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.

16 He saith to him again the second time, aSimon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, cFeed my sheep.

17 He saith unto him the third time, aSimon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him dthe third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, ethou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

John 21:15-18

um nope you have made a mistake why would you want me?

then I moved home and found my way right back into sin.

ILL: footprints on the beach, but I’m in NYC

begin Adulting

I met Emily I can say without one shred of doubt that God put her in my life and without her I would be in jail, dead or worse.

we met my sophomore year Sr. we were engaged by thanksgiving and married the following august.

this was the first step in following the plan God had for me abiding in Gods first Institution

Military

my first deployment in 2003-2004 to Korea

so, for the first time since WWII a unit who was already deployed was redeployed.

that was supposed to be the blessing I was stuck in Korea without my family but not Iraq funny how things happen.

so, I deploy, and it began the way most deployments do

training, missions, sleep or not, and then it got real we had been there five weeks

pictures

the fact of the matter is I should not I be here

at least seven times I was the only one to walk away, walk might be a bit of stretch stumble crawl limp would be better words

Twenty that’s the number of people who I survived.

I’ve been blown up, shot, and with all of that I still didn’t listen to what God was trying to tell me.

Because I’m dumb,

continued to live sort of marking time I had a job a family severed my country but aside from my family didn’t really have a purpose.

God saved me he picked me, from the moment I was saved I knew God had a purpose for me he had called I heard I ignored he had saved me maricosicly and I still denied.

I left the military, being broken physically and mentally

I went to school for computers, nope that didn’t fill the whole

then I tried Art school, Photography I had a knack for it, and I thought this is it but in my last year God said no

we had found and been attending BRBC, and the sprit was working overtime

trying to get me to hear God’s call on my life.

I ended up working at the Casino south of town

lives being destroyed

this sin like a cancer consuming people

and it was here in this modern sadam and gomorhe I heard, listened, I understood, and I Loved

King James Version Chapter 30

to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

Deuteronomy 6:5, Matthew 22:37, Luke 10:27, Mark 12:30, Deuteronomy 30:6

Grace Christian U

The only way I could have gotten though is with God and my wife’s help

pain, growth, and a lot of prayer but God was faithful

so here I am doing what God has called me to

why, I have not the foggiest

so let me finish the story from earlier

walking out to burn poo

but I asked God “what Am I to do?”

when you ask you will get an answer, but it may not be what you want especially if we ask amiss

James 4:1–3 KJV 1900

1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

we should ask but we really need to be aware of why we are asking for the things we ask is it for our glory, comfort or his!