Long intermission

Hello,
       So this is an old blog of mine that I am going to start using again. it has been a long time coming too. After my long intermission I find myself more focused. Although I still have my demons that I am constantly fighting I know the path ahead of me is paved by God, we are promised that in Psalm 150:105 "Thy Word is lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Though God's word is the only way I could have gone through these last four years.
        Speaking of that, This month and June marks the four year anniversary of my family and I moving from Tulsa, Oklahoma to Alliance, Ohio. I remember how full our little apartment front room was. As it filled from the far corner to the middle of the room to the other  corner near the sliding glass window near the dining area. We as a family had limited options to sit. It was cozy and a well learned lesson on pre-planning.
        We were out of room to live, to do anything inside the apartment, the kids were out of school about the middle of May we were just packing and waiting for what we dubbed, "The Big Move" Day. We were anxious, we were impatient and we were getting on each others nerves, but we survived by Praying and reading the Bible. When we did this the days seemed to float by. I just wish now looking back that we, my wife and I had started that on day one of filling up the front room.
        The move itself seemed to go smooth although it started raining on us the last hour of loading the truck, it didn't start down pouring until after we got everything inside the truck.  It was a God thing for sure.
         I remember those 1000 miles we drove was filled with conversations with my kids and mom and texting on my phone, my kids actually typing I would just tell them what to say to my wife, who was driving our van behind the moving truck, just to clear that up. We would say oh wow what is that. Isn't that a nice view and oh no, what is that smell, when we drove by a pig farm in Missouri.
        In the quiet times when the kids would get bored and go to sleep, i would pray to God for the path ahead and guide us to Alliance in Safety. I would also do a lot of praising God for things just to keep the line of communication with God through the Holy Spirit, especially at 2 in the Morning when we got to St. Louis, the road were dark and I was getting sleepy and still had two hours until we got to the hotel, God kept me awake.
        That is my God!
        He told us through His word that he has a plan and purpose for our lives. Romans 8:28 "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." and in Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. This was on my mind from December 25th, 2011 the day we as a family after five months of praying and talking together, all came to the same conclusion that this is God's will for us to go to Alliance, Ohio.
        It is still in my heart and still lay claim to these verses in my life here four years later.
It has been a short time it feels just like yesterday that we were pulling into our home on Main street here in Alliance. It also has been tough for me personally, after following a few events that I will speak about later, I found myself in the office of a  therapist, one thing I promised myself I would never do. There I was though, She is a friend of several people I had met in my first year here, and was trusted. This is when everything seemed to just fall apart, but in hindsight I see that God used this time from July 2013 to August 2014, as time for God to answer a prayer that I made with Him several years ago that I repeatedly prayed to Him. That prayer was For God to show me the 'root' of my problems that I had the mental anguish that lead to physical ills and limitations. (Which I will also tell about in later blog posts.)
        To end tonight this post though I want to share something that has been a walking pattern the last four years. I went to Adult Bible Fellowship this morning and Phil our teaching Pastor at WellSpring Bible Church, located at The Carnation City Mall, was teaching Psalm 139. If you know this Psalm then you know that King David the author, wrote "Where can I go from your Spirit? if I go to the Heavens you are there If I make my bed in the depths you are there." from vs. 7-8. What a wonderful reminder that there is nowhere that God is not here.  Phil said that, this is a tremendously good thing, this is a tremendously terrifying thing as well, something to that. That sums up me to a tee. I have done things that I have done things that I am not proud of. And think back at that and think of God you saw that, He sees everything he saw what we were in for before, during and as it was going to happen the last four years. And now for good and for bad I am so grateful.
         So, this blog is reopened and I hope you like what you read let me know here or on Twitter or Facebook.