I have been shaped by many things over my life. My spiritual life began when I was quite young, I am sure. I just didn’t recognize the signs (of life).

My first “knowing” brush with God occured with the birth of my children, first Keaton and then Sarah. Much of what has been really good in my life I have learned by trying to be a father to these two children of God. I knew there must be a God, because it was totally inexpicalbe to me that anyone or anything else could create something of such beauty and perfection as these two.

Some time afterward I was baptized in the First United Methodist Church of Richardson. I would shudder that God would accept someone like me into a church, but since I did not know God, I wouldn’t discover the real answer until much later.

I divorced my children’s mother some time after that. That same month I would take a personal growth seminar called Choices at the behest of my business partner at the time, Matt Blankenship.

My life changed immediately, dramatically and for the better within 3 hours of the start of the seminar. What happened exactly is not available for reasons of personal trust, but it shook me beyond anything I had ever experienced.

It was all about hearing a story of great hurt. A hurt so bad, that no hurt I had ever personally experienced could have prepared me for the tears I would cry that afternoon.

And it was a hurt of an everyday normal occurence that happens to you, to your friends and to me.

But in this hurt I saw a chance, a fleeting glimpse of redemption for myself, by being honest.

So that is what I endeavor. To be honest. And what has come out of that has been joy, love brotherhood and understanding.

And, I became committed to things important.

I stood up for Jesus Christ. I began taking a (and later teaching) Disciple Bible class and got committed to helping at my church. I coached at Choices. I did the Walk to Emmaus. I was on a team that coached pilgrims on the Walk to Emmaus.

And God has blessed me as I have committed my life. Not necessarily in worldly things, for I am without want, but in all of the good things of the world, including: love, joy, beauty, laughter and hope. As well as with pain, sorrow, death, fear, uncertainty, suicide and many other human conditions otherwise known as life.

And I think God has asked me to write about this life. He has allowed me to be the vessel of much of what has been written here. But many times the human in me interferes and so some of what is here is by me. For that I apologize, but I am certain that God wants me to struggle onward with this effort, and so I wish to do so to be a glory to Him.