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Christ has taken a big part in my life, which is a very good thing. I have needed him to be more involved in my life more than ever with recent events. I haven't found him and I was not recently saved. He has been there all along and saved me and everyone else over two thousand years ago. It just took me some time to realize that he is there with a wonderful message and a great vision, and I can lean on his ample shoulders if needed.
I am not a theologian, so please be patient if my views are not those shared exactly by you, or if you think I am wrong in what I share. I have found that even great theologians tend to disagree or have differing view points, so it's all good. Besides how Christian is it not to get along or form judgments because we may be of differing denominations or somewhat different beliefs? Most all of us here are Christian and that is all that really matters. I think we can all agree that he is the number one, or one part of three of the number one, or the Alpha and the Omega, or how ever you want to look at it. The guy saved us, gave us a job to do, and left instructions. The hard part, or the sticky part is the instructions. Not every one agrees on all of the instructions, or they have different interpretations of the instructions, and it is hard to get guidance, especially guidance that is black and white with no questions.
For those of you that don't know, I have a wonderful wife and an awesome son. They have also helped me keep my sanity in these trying times of mine. Christ gives me the strength to do what I have to do, but my family gives me the glue that bonds my mind together.
I have a wonderful dad that is very ill and it has been tough on me, especially since I am the only child. Health wise he has so many things wrong it is hard to list. The big ones are congestive heart failure, diabetes, cirrhosis of the liver (due to complications from the previous, not due to alcohol). Then there are the side things like intestinal infections, dementia caused by the liver problems, low blood pressure caused by who knows for sure all all of the above. He is in and has been in the hospital off and on, mostly on since November of '06. Thank God he has the VA, because he has no insurance, other than Medicaid. Right now he in in intensive care, isolation. Intensive care because they can't get his blood pressure to stabilize and they have him on a drug to raise the pressure that has to be monitored very closely and isolation because he has a highly infectious virus in his bowels that gives him diarrhea (as if he doesn't have enough going on!). Things are a financial mess and I can't afford to pay his bills, so he may lose his house if I can't get it sold and to sell it needs more work than I can do for it. It's all one big nasty mess that I deal with one day at a time with my families love and God's strength.
On a lighter side my son is in Cub Scouts and loving it. I am his Den leader and his Cubmaster. The best part is that we do things together and have fun doing them. He also plays soccer and I am his coach. Sometimes I wonder if I am taking on too much, but he is thriving and we are closer because of it and that is all that really matters.
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