Blog Post Title One

This is a new world for me. I’ve always taken some level of enjoyment out of being the individual that those around me perhaps considered to be close to the proverbial fence, or pushing boundaries, so to find myself embracing the changes that God has seen fit to bring about in my life is a perspective that I wasn’t anticipating.

I figure it’s important to give anyone browsing the resources I’m creating and hosting an idea of who the person is that they’re purchasing these resources from. I can give you a lot of history, if you really desire, and talk about my years as a student at Northeast Christian College, or my years struggling through depression, loneliness and a desire for life to end or any other number of topics, but I’m going to start in late 2019.

The picture you see at the beginning of this post is from that exact time frame. Life was, in my opinion, very good. I’m not sure if you can tell from that photo, but I was really enjoying that period of my life. I was excelling in my career and kind of felt that I knew where it was heading. I was playing bass with a couple of different individuals and groups and through that was getting immense enjoyment. At this point, I was 29 years old and was still blessed to have all 4 of my grandparents with us. I had just come off of directing an Easter drama that I had written years before for the church I now attended. Literally, life was kind of on easy street. When I tell you that the next years would drastically change my life, my perspective and my appreciation for the things of God, it is not going to do it justice without me sharing the details of that.

In 2020, the world changed in a very brief moment and has never quite returned back to what it was. It was during this time that I took my first very brief tenure from my career. I worked in the powersports industry (still do), and we never could have anticipated how that industry would excel over the next few years. As such, I opted to take the layoff and allow others at work with families to have access to the financial opportunity that consistent work provided. In that time frame, I became engrossed in a news cycle that took me back to places I hadn’t been in a long time. I realised through that experience that my time was better spent elsewhere than enveloping myself in a divisive system, regardless of the motivation behind it. That was the first major change in my life. The second one came within that exact same period of unemployment.

My maternal grandfather, who truthfully shaped a large part of our lives,