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It might actually be happening… Keep praying.
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7 pounds in 7 days – Updates
Hello everyone, sorry I haven’t been able to update as much as I originally wanted. I’m trying to update now according to what my schedule, and what I feel interests you.
Sometimes doing a vlog or blog where I say nothing is boring to me. And I don’t want to bore you. So I’m going to do more sporadic but more interesting vlogs and blogs very soon.
Also, as you can tell by the title, I’ve lost 7 pounds in 7 days! I have not weighed for a few days due to business, but I know I’m on the right track. And all honor and thanks is to God. If you want to know more about my diet and workout, you can contact me in the comments.
I’ma leave you with a BEAUTIFUL song that I’ve loved for a long time but just found a new arrangement.
Golden Rule is good enough for me!
Picture this with me,
A family in suburban Georgia. 5 kids, one mobile home. The mother stays home and homeschools all the children and works on the internet creating and maintaining websites for clients, that father works hard outside the home. They have repair issues sometimes with the decrepit mobile home and sometimes even hate it, asking God for a less cramped home one day.
Yet God decides that this home will make them stronger. It will make them trust him more.
Imagine that theses five kids are radically different in personality. ranging from radically intense and needing special help, to being too introverted and needing to be pulled out of this.
Yet God uses this as a tool to teach everyone in the family how to get along with a myriad of personalities.
I could go on and on about how God uses different things to help and teach my family. He continually works in our lives. Just like he continually worked in the lives of my parents and grandparents. His plan for us is perfect. When things seem to slip, we turn our eyes to him, and he provides in one way or another.
Not many understand the importance of family unity. Kids especially want to rebel and say they’re individuals. But here’s a newsflash, no man is an island. Everyone is part of a group or family. And it’s also true in Pro Wrestling. It takes three men to have a match. A referee, and two competitors. It takes a lot more people to make a wrestling show. Most people look at wrestling politics as a way to claw your way up and pull others down on your way to the top. But I disagree.
While this might happen, when you’re in that locker room, that’s your family. Those are the guys and girls that will be protecting you and each other from harm when you go to battle. And how you get along with them, how well you know your role and your place, that’s what it’s really about. When you have a chance to push forward, do so. But not at the expense of your brothers and sisters.
I went through several years of living with two other guys in the same small room, all bunked up and everything! Being in the military is even more cramped! Remember, the business might have been one way in the past. But that doesn’t mean it has to stay that way.
One of my major missions when I head into my first several matches is to use the golden rule, something that is lost in life and in the ring. I will endeavor to do to others as I want them to do to me.
Think it doesn’t work? Think I’m naive? Well argue with the Bible. Cause I’m doing it anyway! *howls*
Matthew 7:
7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! 12 Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
(PS. No Vlog today. Got too much work. Have a blessed day!)
The Wilderness
You know, it’s a funny thing that when God is bigger, and we are smaller, things go better, smoother, and people notice God’s power. It’s the hardest thing to learn to trust God. But when you do, good things happen.
My Dad was out of work for 11 months before he finally got a job again. And the ONLY thing connecting him to his new job, is that he got the tip from a person that we provide free bread to every week. Because we simply focused on the charity God gave us to perform, he made things right.
Sometimes we’re in those between times and we’re frustrated. Well Psalm 25 says:
“4 Show me Your ways, O LORD;
Teach me Your paths.
5 Lead me in Your truth and teach me,
For You are the God of my salvation;
On You I wait all the day. ”
Every day I pray that God will teach me SOMETHING. Sometimes he teaches you without you knowing it, but sometimes he lets you know about it. And the more you know him, the more you know HOW he teaches you, and what plans he has for you.
So for all of you in those in between times, I have a song for you by the OC Supertones. That’s right! Some Old School Ska! But listen to the lyrics, and I’ll post them here on the page. This is a song about being in the Wilderness, between Canan and Egypt and you feel stuck and you’re not going anywhere. So enjoy.
(Lyrics Below.)
The rain falls on the righteous and the wicked
Mine is not to reason why this is
In this I rest in this I find my refuge
That my thoughts and ways are not His
I spend my life on looking up the answers
It’s rare that I can’t find a reason why
But reasons fail at children without mothers
His plan is more than I can know
Have you ever held a doubt
What this life is all about
Have you questioned all these things
that seem important to us
Do you really wanna know
Or are you a little scared
You’re afraid that God is not really
exactly what you’d have Him be
What should I hold to and what should I do
How do I know if anything’s true
I’m somewhere in-between Canaan and Egypt
A place called the wilderness
I’m not one who always trusts their feelings
I don’t believe in what you’d call blind faith
But faith that you can do all that you promised
And you said it all works for good
It’s safe to say I don’t see the big picture
I can’t see the forest for the trees
And if five hundred lives
Were mine to get to know
You all could be spent on just this
God do you really understand what it’s like to be a man
Have You ever felt the weight of
loving all the things you Hate
Have You struggled have you worried
How can You sympathize
I have spoken too soon put my hand over my mouth
I can’t contend with You
Your ways are so much higher
And we pass through the fire that
Christ endured before us
When You were in the wilderness





