Quite a journey brother Joe! Sounds like it was a hard fought one but necessary overall and a God Send for you! I think you discovered more about your own identity than you could have otherwise and so a blessing in disguise; especially if you look at it that way and want it to be! My dad said many times “when taking on life’s challenge it’s all in the approach,” and that goes with any difficulties we have to face! I know from my own experience some of us are better off facing those challenges alone in order to build character and really find ourselves in order to become the best person we can be.
Congratulations on all the effort you have made and are making to go the right way and fulfill the purpose that God created you for! Stay strong and use all the wisdom you’ve earned to do all the good you are capable of!
God bless you and yours.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in Texas!
Brother in Christ,
Lawrence
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God Bless and happy holidays to you as well, be safe!
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Sister in Christ Tammy, thank you for bringing your thoughtful heartfelt well wishes as your offering!
God bless you and yours now through a most blessed Christmas and on into the New Year! Amen.
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Amen my friend!
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Amen! Thanks!
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Welcome back to Texas. You can relax more now. Best of luck.
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I second that with an absolute belief in the power of good!
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Hey Joe! All the best man! I can relate and it really is a very powerful and important story that you lived as I see it.
As I read your blog essay I was stirred and flooded with thoughts and emotions. Many from the past in my own situation and travels when I spent a lot of time alone, working to be an artist to also find my true identity, but, moreover what my purpose for being here really was!
I guess what I epitomized in my own mind as being the real life of an artist; who is an individual and unique, a kind of pioneer facing the world alone! Not Any kind of Road Warrior type at all, but a very sensitive and caring human being that just doesn’t find he can fit so well with convention or the usually humdrum nature of a business as usual like or mechanized societal life!
Maybe I had the fool notion that I could have been better off being an original settler of America, but chances are I probably wouldn’t have lasted long with my sensitive traits; that was a hard life! I got the impression that you had a powerful journey to complete and you have; so the future is yours as I see it, to make the best of it, and appreciate every bit of it with all your loved ones! And when having quiet moments alone to truly be able to reflect on the power of this life lived well, how you evolved and grew to be the man you are now; and honestly as I say showing character and integrity!
Just keep moving forward as you are Sir, and you have so much to offer!
Thank you for the well wishes!
Peace! 😇❤️🙏
Lawrence
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