I'll never forget the day I gruaduated from high school. We didn't have a very large family in Pennsylvania, but my unlce (who I mentioned earlier) and his family were at our house post graduation for a little party. It was during that party that as I walked through a doorway with my dad coming the other way....he reached out to me a pulled me to him with one arm...a one arm hug....and said "son I'm proud of you". I can remember no hug prior to that time nor since. But ah...the emotion.. I walked into another room and cried until I could compose myself..Well sorry...big stuff to me.
Two years later after spending time delivering bread door to door with Holsum bakery, and a 3AM route with Servomation Vendors....found me married...and moved to Catonsville MD...just outside Baltimore.
Then...this farm boy found himself as an employee of Saint Agnes, Hospital....employed as an inhalation therapist...today Respiratory Therapist....Again God taking very little..me..and giving me an opportunity that formed and sustained me for the next 40 years.
There were other jobs in between....owning a milk can hauling business for 8 months....back to Servomation Vendors.....son born...back to the hospital...daughter born.....backhoe operator....son born.....back to hospital.....and then Durable Medical Equipment Company for many years.
As you can see a lot of unrest in my soul....But in all the unrest, failure, trial.....God has been and ever is good.
In all of these experiences and time though I knew God personally through His Son Jesus.....I was like Job. I knew of God by the hearing of the ear. There were times when exhorted from the pulpit or radio or the written page to be deligent about spending time in reading God's word and spending time in prayer, that I for short periods of time would go gung ho reading and praying. I soon was right back to spending almost no time with the God I claimed to love.
In my next post I will explain how I with Job can now say "I heard about You by the hearing of the ear" but......"Now I see You"!
By God's grace
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