h0tw1r3d_56's 1956 Pontiac Chieftain

I was raised in church, specifically Assembly Of God, My maternal grandfather was a hellfire and brimstone preacher from the early days of the pentecostal movement. Both my older brothers were pastors at one time or another, but I, being the youngest of 5 kids just HAD to be the rebellious one. I was saved and baptized at an early age, before I really understood what it was all about. My teen years were filled with the typical stuff that everyone goes through, except, I stayed away from the alcohol, drugs, sex, all that stuff....I was going to attend bible college after high school graduation, but instead decided to take a year off and see the world for myself...BIG mistake.

The day I was to start bible college, Sept 3, 1991, I was playing my own version of the Jonah scenario..I was in Galveston, TX, on a ferry boat when the Lord first started letting me know what was going on if I didn't get straightened out. I thought I was?

I wound up getting married, having a son, getting divorced and being given a child by the court to raise as a single parent. I kept things out of sight of my Son, always trying to be a good father and godly influence on his life, because I knew that the only real answers to life were in Jesus...all the while, out of his sight, I had turned to a life of alcoholism, substance abuse, promiscuity, and other abhorrent things I won't put here.

9/11 is what led to God grabbing me by the scruff of the neck and shaking me up but good...it became appearent to me that in an instant, everything can be taken away, one's very life can end and then BOOM...there you stand before God on Judgement day answering for what you did with the salvation he sent his son to die for...this LIE that I had been living was nothing worth losing my soul over...ever since then, my theme song has been one that most people don't even know anymore, it was one that my Mother taught to me, one that her Father taught to her back during the depression..."What Would You Give (in exchange for your soul)"

Never take anything for granted, because except in our saviour, Jesus, there is no hope, no promise of even another day. In him, it doesn't really matter what happens tomorrow, the gifts of Salvation and Eternal Life make everything on Earth look like nothing...