Storm Stories: When Darkness Pulls The Strings

So you’ve already heard from his wife–Darla–and their daughter–Trina–and, like every good family man, he put himself last.  He just got a new job and gets to play with a monstrous truck.  (I’m not jealous about that at all, by the way.  No, sir!)  Our Storm StoryTeller today is not a man who seeks wealth soley for selfish purposes, but to support his family.  He’s a man I respect very much.  With the global economy being in such bad shape–some of us have had to make a few changes–but Scott is just grateful to have a job.  His faith, and that of his family, amazes me.  And I still get a kick out of the last sentence to his latest post:

Please pray for a safe and enjoyable time of learning for me and patience and encouragement for my family as we all adjust to this new schedule./ps.  you are getting verrrry hungry, go to Wendy’s and buy a triple already  :lol:

So the man is deliverin’ dough; he ain’t prayin’ to make it.  And though his road ahead is tough and his hours are going to be long, he endures it all with humor and grace.  Because he learned long ago that it’s all part of…

 

GOD’S PLAN

by Scott

What can I say?  I’ve been a screw up most of my life. Watching this video pretty much sums it up.  I used to think that I was a good person, decent, loving and caring.  That was all a lie.   That good person was so buried inside along with my feelings that my life, what I thought was reality, was nothing more than a puppet show with darkness pulling the strings.  I remember going through confirmation classes when I was 12 or so and joining the United Methodist Church.  Funny but I don’t ever remember anyone praying with me to receive Christ.  Church was something my family did sometimes, but it never was a lifestyle.  Shortly after that I left the church and spent the next 25 years or so flaming out of control.  I was having “fun”.

I didn’t know that God had a plan.

Drinking, drug abuse, trying to be what I thought people wanted me to be, hiding my true self safely away.

I didn’t think there was a God.

Full speed ahead.

Reality? I thought I knew what that was. 

Near death experience….. no problem……hit a telephone pole doing 60 mph in a Datsun, no seat belt.  Totalled the truck, found the headlights 50 feet in front of where it stopped.  Not a scratch and had time to hide the “goodies” before the cops showed up. 

I thought I was the Man.

I had gotten married, I thought I was in love.  I thought I knew what love was.

We dated for 6 years before we wed and never fought.  Drinking, drug abuse, we fight all the time, drinking, drug abuse, pornography, seperation.

I didn’t think about God at all.

Got a new girlfriend now,  She’s a lot of fun, she’s got 2 daughters but it’s cool.  Drinking, drug abuse, divorce is final, let’s get this party goin’.  Been together a few years now, the girls call me daddy and we’re having a son.  We’re buying a trailer, starting a family together.  Drinking, drug abuse, pornography, marriage, family.

God?

Buying a house, can’t sell the trailer, drinking, drug abuse, bankruptcy, Maybe we should go to church this Easter, probably be good for the kids.  Weirdo freaky church, drinking, drug abuse…

 Trina wants to start taking Tae Kwon Do–in a church…Maybe we should go check this guy out.  Seems pretty cool.  Drinking, drug abuse…

SALVATION.  Worship team, outreach, kicked out of church–What do you mean we’re too radical?–seeker church, worship leader, lies and deception, anger, new church, baptism, worship team, outreach, weakness, lust, pornography–Man is she PISSED–guilt, shame, counceling…forgiveness.

REAL LOVE.  TRUTH.  TESTIMONY.

GOD’S PLAN.

THANK YOU, JESUS.