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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!! |
| So I hang on for the ride, not knowing where it will take me. Words are the bread crumbs that remind me there is a place called home. Who knows if the consumers of bread crumbs will take me there? |
| I am constantly faced with questions that remind me once and for all think for yourself. I am left wondering if people ever want to know what I think or if that is part of a baiting process itself. The problem with facebook is that it does not lend itself to face to face encounter or dialogue. Instead one becomes part of a league of blanket assumptions that prove once and for all "I am right and you are wrong". I have not got the time for it. In the course of time left I pray to be safe and in that same spirit allow others to feel safe. That is the best I can do or even hope for. |
| Here I go again. It is a few hours of overtime. I am getting impatient with myself. I need to get ready for my next shift at three. I had three hours of sleep and will try to get three or four more God willing. What is it all about God? Help me to see the light. I am almost to fifty that I have never seen. Grant me wisdom to share your resource freely and in love. |
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