Helping each other and those in need

     So, I'm not sure if everyone enjoys reading my thoughts but I enjoy writing them. It's more personal to me and real that way. I hope that they will be posted and my children, friends, and Angela, will see me as someone who struggles daily. It just occurred to me that because I'm doing this stuff and making it public people might expect me to be "perfect" or close! Quite the contrary. I struggle everyday and pray a lot. I want to do right in my life! I want my kids to learn from my mistakes and for us together to figure out who God is, what He wants, and how we can all get to that point. I want us to be accountable to one another and help one another along this journey with Him. We will all fall short and make mistakes but if we are all together and fighting the same fight when one of us does screw up, maybe we can have the tools handy to make our recovery a little less painful. I love you guys and hope that we are doing this together and learning together. Kind of like we are all sitting in math class together studying algebra! At 42 I should be way ahead of you guys but I'm right there with you! Sitting right up front trying to do the best I can.

    I want to personally thank every one who is involved in my life. There has been money sent, prayers prayed, tears cried, and lots of things. Thank you all for loving me and everything you've done. I hope people are interested in what I'm doing, what we are doing together. I only want for God's people to get whatever it is they need so that God can get us all right where He needs us! My salvation, my family's salvation, and the salvation of all my friends have suddenly become more important to me than anything else. To all the folks in my life who have prayed for me, made efforts to pull my head out of my butt, sent money, opened your home to me, rescued me, etc. Thank you. I love you and I hope that together we can make a difference in the life of any person anywhere that needs it. My heart is kind of soft on dads, kids, families who grow up broken, addicted, and lonely like I did. I hope people can stop the brokenness in their families and their futures. Maybe if we send some of these posts to all our friends, families, co-workers, or who ever, someone who needs to hear them will be encouraged by them and step up to the plate with this lonely, addicted father to stop the brokenness in his or her family. I hope you are praying with me for that very thing to take place in our lives!