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One man's journey to find the way home |
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I am an American Baptist ordained minister. I began my life journey in Massachusetts, where I was called to help people understand what it meant to know a loving God. The call came during a time when I was wrestling with how to help my brother Kurt, who was diagnosed with Schizophrenia during my high school years. I was a new Christian by my senior year following trying to understand what it meant for me to care about a person like my brother who others tended to stay away from.
After twenty three years in Massachusetts, God sent me to the land of Kansas City where I spent about 35 years of my life. I was a pastor, a resident chaplain, a supervisor in training and most recently a caregiver and security. Everything I have done vocationally has been with God in mind. That does not mean that I am totally comfortable with all the movings of the Spirit.
I am now in Erie where I do not know very many people. I came here because of my wife. She is from Erie and coming here was the right thing to do. It just plain made sense. My kids had grown up. I did not like Kansas city in terms of climate and was looking forward to a change. I had become very frustrated vocationally and longed to come to Erie to get a second opinion, because I honestly believed that was what God had wanted for me. I left behind kids and grandkids who I loved!!!! I had two jobs that I enjoyed. They were both very appreciative of my skills and I was making more money with the two jobs than I ever had. I heard more than once. ARE YOU CRAZY?
Well I can only say that I am in love with God's leading. I am starting all over again. It has not been easy. Maybe some of you can offer me some words of support. I am lonely despite the fact my wife is with me. She battles depression and has two siblings that are having similar battles. When it is all said I am in a depressed community with a depressed wife and her family. So I begin the conversation....
WELCOME!!
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October 21, 2022 at 11:11am
October 21, 2022 at 11:11am
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| Retirement may be closer than I think. It is sad to constantly be frustrated at not getting or being enough. Retirement could be a time of celebrating history, writing my story and defining once and for all what it means to love my wife. And maybe along the way I get back into church and read the scriptures. And maybe make my own realistic assessment of the Catholic church. |
October 20, 2022 at 12:55pm
October 20, 2022 at 12:55pm
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| Getting paid today is a good feeling. Maybe all the work is worth ii. |
October 19, 2022 at 1:59pm
October 19, 2022 at 1:59pm
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| Here I am. I did a lot of dusting and found a couple dollars and now have three inhalers. I am still on track to get a million steps. I hope to get into the bible and reading 25 pages. Retirement is calling. I am not sure how much longer I can turn a deaf ear to it. |
October 18, 2022 at 4:11am
October 18, 2022 at 4:11am
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| So when do I retire. What is the point of making money if you can't enjoy it? |
October 17, 2022 at 1:03am
October 17, 2022 at 1:03am
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| My asthma is eating me alive. I am awake and can't get back to sleep. My walking running has been okay. I need more sleep and rest to feel like me. |
October 14, 2022 at 7:15am
October 14, 2022 at 7:15am
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| My cold is slowing me down. I hope to take the day to rest. I am feeling overwhelmed by all the money coming out of the bank account. I am halfway almost and already spending close to 3000 dollars, only about 500 in. I will be okay. It is hard to be patient. There are more and more bills. |
October 13, 2022 at 2:14am
October 13, 2022 at 2:14am
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| I 🙏 pray to survive to see another day. I am not well. I cough and blow my nose. God give strength to make it through the night. |
October 12, 2022 at 10:30am
October 12, 2022 at 10:30am
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Being Baptist has never been easy for me. It is mainly doing the best I can in the context of the scriptures and celebrating as people find their own ways to live the life of Christ. These convictions have put me in unusual places where I have been forced to relate with people of different faith and lifestyle understandings.. I share my own testimony about how I found Christ and Christ found me and my own decision to testify to my faith by being baptized.
I have learned some people will never believe the way I do and it is not my job to impose my views on others. The journey is about helping others see for themselves what they are willing to die for. The challenge is being able to be in community with others as and not let it become a situation where one person has to be right and another wrong, because once it gets there we no longer have to learn from one another. You might be in heaven and in your mind I might be going to hell. I will always want to know what purpose does that serve. I am glad you know what you believe and that you clearly know where you are going, I am much more concerned about how we are getting there together in the service of a God that does not want anyone to perish.
My faith context of late is working with intellectually disabled adults. I think a lot of the issue about learning what it means to be Christian hinges on Jesus words that they knew not what they were doing. In a sense I think we are all intellectually disabled in danger of crucifying Christ again and again.simply because we do not have all the facts and let persons become more like objects than the persons that God created them to be.
So one day at a time I hope to find ways to sing in celebration about the love of God that has allowed me to have a voice. And my prayer that as I do it some are inspired to find their own voice. Because my faith began at the point I no longer had to sit down and shut up. That was the message from my family that I received whether they intended to share it or not. It was also about being seen and not heard. I love to sing about how I am no longer a prisoner of the convictions I grew up with and love proving over and over that being somehow less intelligent is not the problem, rather it is the way we learn to be Godly and have man together. I pray over time God shows the way to be connected and different at the same time so that I might hear with others the words of the savior that say indeed your FAITH has saved you. |
October 10, 2022 at 9:25pm
October 10, 2022 at 9:25pm
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| Back to work means I help when I can. To God be the glory. |
October 9, 2022 at 10:24pm
October 9, 2022 at 10:24pm
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| I pray that I survive. The hours are not there for a lot of days. I will enjoy the time off. I am feeling my age. I gained some weight as always. It was only a bit over two which is not bad. I eat nothing but fatty food while at work and live to tell the tale. Tomorrow I will get back into bible reading and try to be realistic about the rest of the month. It got scaled down below five thousand which is expected, just a bit frustrating. I need to hang in there it will not get easier. Everyone wants money. I also have concerns about church and survival in general. I hope to call my kids. One day at a time. |
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