Wings like eagles

This is the scripture verse that helped me throught the Army.
Isaiah 40:31
They that trust in the Lord shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not grow weary, they shall walk and not grow faint.

The Army

This was my first tattoo. I helped the artist design it. It says ARMY. I got it November 17, 2001.

The wages of sin...

This one is an ambigram (sp?). It says Death, and when you turn it upside down, it says life.

The wages of Sin is DEATH but the Gift of God is Eternal Life.

simply put.

Dead and Gone

This is a tattoo of mine on my right, inner forearm.
It is a picture of a yin and yang and the two most popular beings in asian history. The Tiger and the Dragon. Except in this pic the dragon is just a skeleton. The chinese believe that the tiger is the most pure being alive and that the dragon represents pure evil. It shows how my life at one point was all evil and it was destroying me and God was trying to get ahold of me. Finally when I confronted my past and confronted my mistakes and got down on my knees and asked for forgiveness from my God, He forgave me.
This is a depiction of how the evilness of me is Dead and Gone".

Only good things to come...

Randomness

For any of you readers these next parts are rhetorical questions:
1. If your blessed with a job and a living condition, why are you complaining all the time with other peoples problems?
2. Why do you have to shove your problems on everyone else? Why can't you take your problems to God?
3. Be thankful for what you DO have, stop complaining about what you lack!
4. If you got someone for advice and all you seem to do is reject their advice with excuse after excuse... don't expect any help.
5. Instead of talking constantly, or waiting for the other person to finish... truly listen to someone else's thoughts... we all just might learn something.

God, I pray that the ponderables and exclamations make it to the one's it needs to!

If I said something and you know that is you... seek God!

The Place

So, I got the job as a cook at this camp that I applied for. I lived there and I worked there. It was a close knit community. And at the time, It was a little too close for comfort. When I started working there, I was separated from my wife, legally. And was in the final stages of a divorce. So, the devil used that as an excuse to start dating again. I wanted to and I did. So, I started dating this wonderful girl. And what started out to be innocent and romantic, turned out to be lustful and selfish... on both parts. We were physically involved even though we had vowed to abstain. But we didn't set our boundaries too high. Along with the lust, we let down our walls to many other worldly pleasures that youth nowadays find intriguing. We were both turning into what we were running from. Sooner or later I was let go without an answer as to why. But I look back and I know it was God that had a hand in that firing... 'cause soon after the firing, the girl and I broke up... And after I repented profusely to God. I was given a Gift beyond measure... I was granted a job at the place I work now. The place where I find my solitude. The place where God has met me time and time again. Where I have met very key people in my life and in my walk with God. I will never forget this place... But I am not finished here yet... Thank you God and Thank you Campus By The Sea, Avalon, California.

Jesus Strikes Back

I found this job selling magazines and children's books door-to-door. Well it was more like scamming people to buy these fake magazines and either you got money right then or later that day, either way it was stealing. I was terrible at it, I mean, I can sell stuff. But, straight out scamming? For some reason I could live my life as a hypocrite and lie to the people that mattered, but I couldn't scam some old lady for her money.
While I was with this job, we smoked weed daily, got drunk nightly and everyone was hookin' up. Gladly I wasn't there long enough to follow that suit.
Every now and then I would call my family and check-in. But there was this one time I called my mom and she said "thank God you called, I had a terrible dream last night about you; please come home!!!" That's all she had to say, because my mom has that kinda influence. So, I gathered my last paycheck and skipped outta that job. While I was on the bus back to Texas from Chicago, God met me as clear as day and said to me " "I'm going to give you a chance to turn your life around when you get home and if you do so, i will bless you, because you are my son."
So, when I got home my mom told me about a job at a Christian camp in Southern California at Palomar Mountain. I told God "if you are for real then help me get this job, I will not lie on my application or resume, nor will i lie in my interviews". I didn't doubt God and I held up my part of the bargain...