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Living out the teenage years I made some good, bad, and ugly decisions. What God did in my life was great and what He spared me from (alcohol, sex before marriage and drugs) was a blessing. He gave me a church student ministry and a student minister that loved and cared for me. God allowed “my run to place’ (refuge) as a teenager to be: my church, Godly friends and my student minister. God blessed me with the type of student ministry that was “community.” There was a since of ownership and students didn’t just go to “it” they were “it.” God grew me in this setting. He moved the youth minister that I had looked to as a kind of “Dad” sometimes and I felt alone, hurt, confused. During this time God taught me to move on in Him. He continued to bless me with people in my life that walked along side of me to give wise council that I needed. During these years, I met my wife to be and dated her through high school.
After high school we were engaged and married the next May. We bought a little house outside of Huntsville in March before our wedding. Over the next two years, God taught us many great lessons. The one lesson that I at the time didn’t want to learn was giving up my pride. You see, I was very proud that at age 20. I was married, bought a house, and seemed to have things under my control. Wrong! God was telling me to sell my house, move my family and go to school and be trained for ministry to come. I knew that this would be out of my control. Over time God set me down and showed me he had something for me if I would just trust Him. I surrendered my pride to Him and followed His call of full time vocation to Him. I knew this meant going to school and being trained. We moved to college and on to seminary to follow what God had in store for us. God called me to be in the church as a work place and he called my wife to support me and love students. She is a rock for me. I am blessed to have this partner in life. God Blessed us with two wonderful children that he allows us to nurture in their growing up process. We want to be parents that point our children in the way of the Lord.
I've made bad choices in my life, but my choice to follow Christ was, is the best choice I have ever made. Have you starting your relationship with Him?
My wife was diagnosed with breast cancer almost two years ago. She had a double mastectomy and been cancer free ever since. For those of you that have walked or are walking this path and need someone to just talk with we will always be available. 2564436012
