Jesus calls me His Warrior for Joy. Coming to this realization has been a process. All children of the Most High God share a common identity, just like siblings do; and each one has a unique personality and gifting. I want to share with you some of my joyful journey into this God-given identity. The family and culture I grew up in communicated that being a deva would make me happy and successful. So the identity I inherited and sought for was in relation to physical beauty, social status, and...
Jesus used only five loaves and two small fish to feed 5,000. Imagine what He can do with your seemingly small Joy Story to reach thousands!
Helping Hand
I’m not a great art aficionado or adept at anything medical, so when both of those things converged in my life in the same week, they caught my attention. However, when a third “coincidence” happened, I realized something else might be going on. Those three things confirmed the truth of a quote I once read, “Lord, please make it happen in the most impossible way so they know it’s only You who could have done it.” It really did seem impossible. The first part of this trifecta happened at my...
I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”
A TESTIMONY IN THREE PARTS - PART ONE 1985 is when I met the love of my life. Her name is Tina. We got married the following year in 1986. We talked about having kids and in 1991 we were excited to find out she was pregnant. I already had a son from my first marriage, Kris, so I was hoping to have a daughter one day, too. Unfortunately, she had a miscarriage a couple months in. We were heartbroken. In January of 1993 I found out I had Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. Thankfully the cancer was localized...
I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”
A TESTIMONY IN THREE PARTS - PART TWO In summer of 2005, my daughter asked if she could go to a church camp with her friend. Following that trip, she started regularly attending church with her friend and her friend’s family. And after a while, my daughter started asking me to go to church with her. It took a few attempts, but she finally convinced me to go with her. So I went and then found myself attending on a regular basis. I felt it was time for me to reconnect my relationship with the...
I Want to Change “C” from “Cancer” to “Christ”
A TESTIMONY IN THREE PARTS - PART THREE On March the 25th, 2019, I had an appointment at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Florida to start a new drug to see if my heart would function better. They admitted me so I could be monitored. Unfortunately, after a day and a half, they had to stop the drug. It was causing my heart to beat too fast. All the monitors in my hospital room were going off, signaling my heart was in distress. This was when I knew I had reconnected with Christ and made my...
Blessings in disguise
God's Sovereignty in our Suffering: Proverbs 31:10 posed a unique question when it asked, “An excellent wife who can find?” In response to this, I thought about several Biblical marriages and was hard pressed to find many wives who would fit the bill. Solomon, who had 700 wives, gave this gem of wisdom in Proverbs 21:9, “It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.” I’m not sure how many houses he owned, but Solomon probably spent a lot of...





