HM2 OUT!

Greetings from Seattle...Well it is final, I was discharged from the NAVY today. It is quite an exciting time for us, but also brings about some mixed feelings for me. I have been in the NAVY for 9 years 11 months and 5 days. It has been an incredible journey that begun soon after graduation. Upon my entrance to the service I was lost, lonely and struggling to find purpose in life and after encouragement from my uncle Max to join the NAVY I ventured out to do so. I say that it brings alot of mixed feelings because the NAVY haas been good to my family and I.

It was during my tenure that I found my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, almost 8 years ago. It was also in the NAVY that I met my bride, right around 6 years ago. So the Lord has done great things in my life over the last 10 years, my desire to find purpose was completed when I found Jesus. The desire that I have always had even from my youth to be called "daddy" from my children is being fulfilled daily. It is in Christ that new desires have been birthed for Sandra and I. The desire to be faithful to the call of Christ. In the Gospel He tells us, "Follow Me" for all people that means to follow Christ, to stop living for our own desires, riches, glory, fame, to accept Christ as Lord and Savior and live for Him.

For each believer that means to seek God's call and be faithful and obedient to "follow Him" in whatever it is He calls us to. Often times those thing don't immediatley make sense in our limited perspective. But, it didn't make sense for God to send His only begotten Son to die, or did it? So for Sandra and I, we have heard God's call upon our lives, we as His children want to be faithful and obedient regardless of the cost. We know, that for which He (God) calls us to, He gives that which we need. Christ promises us in His Word, "I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and in the age to come eternal life."

Their is a famous quote by missionary Jim Elliot that I would like to close with, "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."

Please pray for us as we are excited about the next season of life as we serve the Lord, pray for our children that they would have a heart to follow Jesus, regardless of the cost, for the Glory of His kingdom, be blessed friends and family.