I am disabled from an Industrial Accident that left me a like a zombie for almost 4 years after a steel bar that was left laying on top of a steel cage tool crib we were constructing fell and crushed the back of my skull just above my brain stem. The last 25 years have been spent fighting to regain the ability to talk and think and very gradually I began to write again about 10 years ago. For the last seven years I have been fighting heart problems and nerve damage after a doctor nicked my sciatic nerve which left me with indescribable pain in my chest and spasms which are so severe they cause my ribs to break as I am twisted in their hellish grip.
I strive to live each day as if it is to be my last because each one could very well be. I have died twice and have been allowed to experience many wondrous events during those times but it was just not my time to remain with the dead, yet. I am willing to stay in this pain ridden body as long as I am needed, as long as it takes for the message I have been given to write to reach every searching soul my words are meant for. But I do so look forward to the day when my God given mission is complete and I am once again allowed to step across that river of death and this time into the open arms of my Lord and Savior to remain for all eternity.
In various hospitals as the pain and spasms were breaking my ribs as they tried to rip me apart, I have been asked many times how I could continue to praise God while going through such pain and torment. The question I always try to ask in return is "How can I NOT Praise Him? He is not doing this to me and Christ suffered so much worse than I ever could as He died in my place."
A Lot of people just do not understand how I can keep my faith through such pain but it is trials that build faith if we continue to Trust God to carry us through. I have been allowed so experience so much (beginning with terminal cancer in 1976, from which I was completely healed) and because of this I can talk to almost anyone about things they are going through and say, "I have been there and God will take you through if you let Him." So many hurting people are searching for an answer to their questions and only someone who has suffered as they are, have the ability to reach into their world and say, "as are You so was I and in the Name of Jesus the Only Begotten Son of God you can be made Free from your Guilt and you Sin and be Cleansed from the Sickness which has invaded your body.
Everyone is hurting and everyone is Searching; Only God has the answer and His Name is Jesus.
Yes I have suffered much but am willing to suffer more if necessary to be able to reach every lost and searching soul. It is NOT the will of God that ANY should Perish; How can any Believer stand by and watch people bound with such terrible things and not wish to reach out into their pain and hand them the Touch of the King of Kings? I do what I can, I do what I must for without Christ Jesus there is NO HOPE and without His Holy Blood Accepted Freely can anyone enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
I Serve Jehovah through Jesus the Christ, the Only Begotten Son of the Living God. Whom do YOU Serve and where are YOU going to spend Eternity?
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Another place to write poetry and share with others who also write. Also a place to share my love of photography. Clouds seem to have personalities of their own, especially just before and after a storm.
