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Hi Everybody,
I have been lurking about here or there, but
today I am posting to say I am going to be getting back in the saddle again.
After getting my block knocked off by a lot of stressful and frustrating things,
I had to go regroup. I had to go take an inventory of things, not just physical
things but Spiritual things too. Who would have thought that my wife would have
went to church with me for 2 Sundays in a row? I have never seen anything
like that in 12 years of being married. So for me, this is MAJOR NEWS! I'm very
excited about these things. Eventually, we will be working our way into a weekly
Bible study. The new church is large and full of fun and exciting people. They
are very activity oriented and there and there is a lot of promise that my wife
can finally come out of her shell and make some friends. Though the new church
has a new Ranger program, I'm afraid I won't be involved with it immediately.
One pow-wow we had several years ago, had a theme it was "Remember The Main
Things" and this is what I have to do at this point. Remember the main things.
All others can potentially sidetrack me. I have to focus more on what's going on
w/ me right now. God's got plenty of other able bodied people to tend to the new
Ranger outpost there. The Ranger Commanders there all know me already, but I
told them that though I'll be happy to talk with them about Rangers, I
can't commit my time to serving as a Commander right now. I have my main things
that I have to remember at put in order. I feel that doing this is what my
priorities should be.
I had to do something about my fledgling
DJ business. I didn't just dispose of it, it wasn't that easy. Prospects have
started to come in now. This time last year, I had absolutely nothing going on.
I closed out last year with having saved my house from foreclosure nearly
loosing my wife and getting buried in debt.
I closed out last year with having
performed at 14 weddings. My wife has come back from walking out on me. This
year I have 8 prospects on the table for the business. I kept my day job (thanks
for your prayers!) I'm trying hard to stay upbeat. I'm not entirely out of the
woods yet, I still don't know what the next 7 months holds as contracts start to
expire at the day job. My DJ business, well, I am shifting gears a little, I
have opened up a phpbb type chat forum which is for prospective brides and
grooms to be able to ask various types of vendors in the wedding and event
industry to interact and ask questions, basically an online Weddings 101, if you
will. It is set up to also discuss things like music and provides separate
forums for that. Most of the people who visit, I don't expect to be Christians,
but the board is "Professional" with Christian overtones. I'm mentioning
it here because for me, this is something that I am rejoicing about and as
Christians, we all need to rejoice together. I want to share it! Yes, this is a
little bit off the Ranger topic, but as long as Rangers remain Christians, it's
not entirely off topic. I'm posting my link if anyone wants to post with me on
the new board and discuss things like weddings and music and things outside of
Rangers. http://www.angelflightdj.com/forum
but I don't want to take up anymore time. I wanted to share with you because you
all here have been hanging with me since 1997 when the Capital Section Royal
Rangers first got me a computer when I was serving as a Deputy Sectional
Commander in the Potomac District. I appreciate you guys (&
Gals, Janet!) ;)
Iron Mike
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