October 25, 2005

• I was tagged by beachgirl……
  
  1. I ate monkey in the jungles of Panama (now I have this overwhelming urge to swing from trees…..go figure!).
  
  2. All my life, I never went anywhere without my Bible, even though I rarely read it or understood scripture. I always had one on my desk, in my suitcase, rucksack or safely on a shelf nearby. I even read the whole thing and still had little of a clue except that I knew it was sacred and that God wanted me to have it with me always.
  
  3. In the last few years God figured it was time for me to understand and opened my eyes to His Words……so, now I read and study every day and never go anywhere without a few translations from which to draw from.
  
  4. I am deeply in love with a beautiful woman who, I believe, understands me. If nothing else, she sure has patience and put’s up with me well!
  
  5. I am deeply in love with an awesome God who, I believe, understands me. If nothing else, he sure has patience and put’s up with me well!
  
  6. I feel like a kid in a candy store when people relate to me how God is working in their lives (My eyes get wide and I drool, okay, maybe I don’t drool, but the anticipation of hearing about God working drives me crazy!)
  
  7. I want to smell like a sheep (pastors will understand this feeling).
  
  8. My very first record albums were by Jimi Hendrix, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Frank Zappa, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Steppenwolf  (I joined Columbia House when I was a kid).
  
  9. My first 45 (remember those!) was a song by Merrilee Rush called “Angel Of The Morning”.
  
  10. I took piano lessons WEEKLY from the time I was in first grade to High School (12 years) and used to give piano lessons to beginners when I was 16…..and now I can’t play a thing on keyboards (or hardly).
  
  11. When I was in High School ALL my friends played guitar, banjo or fiddle and I played nothing…..but I had a field recording rig and recorded their sessions. Often out in fields or basements or wherever we happened to be.
  
  12. I played Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” every night for years driving home at two or three in the morning from Warrenton to Manassas, Virginia (when I was in High School).
  
  13. I picked up the guitar when I was in college after my divorce. I learned the word “sublimation” in psychology and was determined to get through my pain by sublimating my desires on a guitar and songwriting rather that hurt myself or other people.
  
  14. I once wrote a country song that major record companies in Nashville turned down because it promoted drinking and driving. It was called “Hold Me Up, I’m Hurtin’ Tonight”.
  
  15. I met Kelly, my wife, when I was 28. My life has never been the same since, in fact….it’s been somewhat “normal”. What’s normal….normal to me is drug-free and on a path to redemption rather than ruin.
  
  16. I knew the first time I stuck a needle in my arm that there would be no turning back…..but I did it anyway. I still have a photo from that night. Thankfully, God knew that with Him, there was a way I could turn back…and I did.
  
  17. Thankfully……my children and my wife never experienced me in my darkest moments….God delivered me and blessed me with this family. My children have been able to grow up without my baggage affecting their life.
  
  18. Lastly……I am a student of life. My entire life has been spent in a classroom with Jesus as the teacher…….I chose to skip class and go on quite a few outings on my own…..but each time when I returned, Jesus helped me build on and learn from the experiences I had. I am still in the class room. Jesus is still my teacher, and I have realized it is better to stay in class than to skip!

  
  

   

  
  

  I think everyone has been tagged…… if you haven’t…..YOU ARE TAGGED!
  
  

  
  

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