I was supposed to be on vacation, I wanted to go down to California to see my best friends but it didn’t work out. I might just pick a day out of this week turn my phone off and just drive somewhere. But right now God has put people in my life to chill with. The Ministry is busy anyway might as well get introduced to it early. Every other Friday a bunch of us meet and have reflections of the week. Every time I get asked I draw a blank. Sometimes I feel the presence of God and sometimes I don’t, but He is always there. Usually I can sit down, write down my thoughts and make them into tribunes and hand them out to people. I have been trying to write for the past week but didn’t feel anything valuable to write. I take that back I do feel something. I feel like a moron when I deposit my money into the wrong account and spend most of it and thought that it was in my savings but it was actually in my checking account. I feel dumbfounded when a person was woken up, started turning their life around and they jump right into it. I feel confused when it comes to the education of God dealing with an ultra conservative school. I feel lost to an uncertain future. Where will God place me when I graduate? Then I go back to the basics of Keep It Simple Stupid, Hutch. Freaking out to situations that don’t need to be freaked out over. All of this stuff is meaningless, these feelings of mine are Mickey Mouse doo doo. I go back to the basics of focus and direction… I fix my eyes on Jesus.
“and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:1-2
You see God has set before you a race. You have to run it; and it will involve effort and commitment. Just being passive never runs a race. God wants us to run the race, and finish it right. What is my race? I mean what I’m to accomplish? I think my race is to be like Jesus, to accomplish what He wants me to get done. To bring as many people with many to heaven, even if it is one person. Race is the ancient Greek word agona, a word used for struggle of many kinds, and a favorite word of Paul. We can only run the race as we look to Jesus, and have our eyes locked on to Him. He is our focus, our inspiration, and our example. Life has its ups and downs. And we have roadblocks but we change those roadblocks into comebacks. We experience trials and tribulations in order to grow and mature in our faith.
“Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything" James 1:4.
Our suffering develops perseverance; and perseverance will build maturity and maturity will produce character. So suffering is designed to make us better people. No matter what happens, we must never give up on our faith. Things will get better… I think? Yes they do. So I fix my eyes on Jesus and when I do this I know there is hope for me let.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Saturday, January 3, 2009
GO OUT
12/3/09
It has been a year since I started the Hutch Tribune. I didn’t think that it would last this long. Last year about this time I quit drinking meaning quit getting wasted… I have not touched a beer in 3 months. Anyways last year when I did quit, God took over my body and I was a new person. I decided I wanted to help my self and others on our walk with God. So I started this and then it grew into something bigger… I became a Preacher. I like to serve people my heart goes out to people. I like to be there for my friends even if it involves me pushing up a dryer the size of Texas upstairs and having it fall on my ankles. I have become a professional mover since being at church… I should sale my truck . In 08 I ran into some bumps in the road but in the end I’m doing what I love, learning and preaching the Word. And serving the people. Preach the Word is our motto our battle cry at school. Every time a preacher goes up to the pulpit we say “Preach the Word”. It is totally awesome.
“Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.”- 2 Timothy 4:2
Though Paul is talking to Timothy here, this relates to us because we are Disciples of Jesus and we are in His army. When Jesus sent out his disciples he told them to proclaim the Gospel, The Kingdom. Another word for proclaim is to preach. To be ready in season we need to be ready always. We should preach when it is easy and when it is tough. We need to preach when the fruit is evident and preach when the fruit seems non-existent. Just Preach it (yes I stole this from Nike…sue me). We need to be contenders of the Faith.
“ Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.”- Jude 1:3
If we highlight the word you, we see that this was something that Jude wanted each individual Christian to do. There are many ways that every Christian can contend earnestly for the faith. We contend for the faith in a practical sense when we live rigid Christian lives and give credit to God who changed us. Obviously, faithful missionaries and evangelists (all of us our missionaries) contend earnestly for the faith. But so does the average Joe, the Sunday school teacher or people who have Bible studies in their homes. People like this contend for the faith just as much as a front-line missionary does, and each one of us should contend for the gospel wherever God puts us. The road up ahead is hard and scary but I like what Paul says,
“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”-Philippians 1:21
Death is not defeat to the Christian. It is merely a graduation to glory, a huge gain for the Christian. I would like to thank all my friends who read these writings and support me as I support you
“Iron sharpens Iron so one man sharpens another”-Proverbs 27:17.
Shalom,
Brother Hutch
It has been a year since I started the Hutch Tribune. I didn’t think that it would last this long. Last year about this time I quit drinking meaning quit getting wasted… I have not touched a beer in 3 months. Anyways last year when I did quit, God took over my body and I was a new person. I decided I wanted to help my self and others on our walk with God. So I started this and then it grew into something bigger… I became a Preacher. I like to serve people my heart goes out to people. I like to be there for my friends even if it involves me pushing up a dryer the size of Texas upstairs and having it fall on my ankles. I have become a professional mover since being at church… I should sale my truck . In 08 I ran into some bumps in the road but in the end I’m doing what I love, learning and preaching the Word. And serving the people. Preach the Word is our motto our battle cry at school. Every time a preacher goes up to the pulpit we say “Preach the Word”. It is totally awesome.
“Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.”- 2 Timothy 4:2
Though Paul is talking to Timothy here, this relates to us because we are Disciples of Jesus and we are in His army. When Jesus sent out his disciples he told them to proclaim the Gospel, The Kingdom. Another word for proclaim is to preach. To be ready in season we need to be ready always. We should preach when it is easy and when it is tough. We need to preach when the fruit is evident and preach when the fruit seems non-existent. Just Preach it (yes I stole this from Nike…sue me). We need to be contenders of the Faith.
“ Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.”- Jude 1:3
If we highlight the word you, we see that this was something that Jude wanted each individual Christian to do. There are many ways that every Christian can contend earnestly for the faith. We contend for the faith in a practical sense when we live rigid Christian lives and give credit to God who changed us. Obviously, faithful missionaries and evangelists (all of us our missionaries) contend earnestly for the faith. But so does the average Joe, the Sunday school teacher or people who have Bible studies in their homes. People like this contend for the faith just as much as a front-line missionary does, and each one of us should contend for the gospel wherever God puts us. The road up ahead is hard and scary but I like what Paul says,
“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”-Philippians 1:21
Death is not defeat to the Christian. It is merely a graduation to glory, a huge gain for the Christian. I would like to thank all my friends who read these writings and support me as I support you
“Iron sharpens Iron so one man sharpens another”-Proverbs 27:17.
Shalom,
Brother Hutch
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Dropping my nets
“As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. "Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." At once they left their nets and followed him."-Matt 4:18-20.
"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it'd be easy; they just promised it'd be worth it."-unkown
I have decided to go to Sunset Bible College in Pullyap(whatever you call it, its un-American) to become a preacher. Everyone says that I have potential and would be an awesome one. Mark Gilman told me that he could see me on CNN. Arlene even told me she saw it in me. I'm going with it. I'm going to quit my job, sell my villa on wheels, take some money out of my savings to pay rent. Their is no tuition, just have to pay for books. Life to me is taking risks and following my gut. I don't think about the future because that is for my Maker to decide. If it’s His will, I will have one and He will take care of me. Same with you too, all we need is to trust him, which is a hard thing for me sometimes. What’s the point of the future? I sometimes get caught up in society telling me that I need to conform to their game and not listen to God. Graduate college, get a professional job, big house, Ferrari, boat, a mocha latte double vanilla creme espresso. Heck with that I'm not like everybody else. All that stuff is meaningless to me. I wouldn't mind having a boat for fishing. I wonder what was going on in Peter and Andrew's mind when this Jesus from Nazareth told them to follow him? I mean a dude wearing flip flops with long hair sporting a beard asking to drop their jobs as fishermen to follow him. I think I would be in a pickle on what to do. I would probably have a puzzled dumbfounded look on my face. Consider what happened to Jonah. Maybe Jonah thought it was dangerous to go to Nineveh. But if so, how did he escape the risk? He boarded a rickety boat and set sail on the tempestuous Mediterranean. The boat came near to sinking, and Jonah was swallowed by a great fish. We can draw many lessons from his book, but perhaps the main lesson is that God can use even a man with no common sense.
The world says that if our kids fail at school it’s their fought. That's crap teachers are failing the students. Failing makes you smarter and stronger in a strange way. Some people don't take risks because they think they will fail. I have failed at many things, but I learned that failure is an event not a person. How do you know if you don't try? And if you do fail you learn, pick yourself up and try from a different approach and will excel with greatness. This is probably the biggest risk I have ever done in my life! I have no clue what’s ahead. I'm scared and nervous but determined. I see myself touching lost souls who are walking in the dark and I feel that God is leading me. I have always felt something for the ministry for the past 2 years but I didn't do anything about it. I'm looking forward to tomorrow and the promise that it brings.
"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it'd be easy; they just promised it'd be worth it."-unkown
I have decided to go to Sunset Bible College in Pullyap(whatever you call it, its un-American) to become a preacher. Everyone says that I have potential and would be an awesome one. Mark Gilman told me that he could see me on CNN. Arlene even told me she saw it in me. I'm going with it. I'm going to quit my job, sell my villa on wheels, take some money out of my savings to pay rent. Their is no tuition, just have to pay for books. Life to me is taking risks and following my gut. I don't think about the future because that is for my Maker to decide. If it’s His will, I will have one and He will take care of me. Same with you too, all we need is to trust him, which is a hard thing for me sometimes. What’s the point of the future? I sometimes get caught up in society telling me that I need to conform to their game and not listen to God. Graduate college, get a professional job, big house, Ferrari, boat, a mocha latte double vanilla creme espresso. Heck with that I'm not like everybody else. All that stuff is meaningless to me. I wouldn't mind having a boat for fishing. I wonder what was going on in Peter and Andrew's mind when this Jesus from Nazareth told them to follow him? I mean a dude wearing flip flops with long hair sporting a beard asking to drop their jobs as fishermen to follow him. I think I would be in a pickle on what to do. I would probably have a puzzled dumbfounded look on my face. Consider what happened to Jonah. Maybe Jonah thought it was dangerous to go to Nineveh. But if so, how did he escape the risk? He boarded a rickety boat and set sail on the tempestuous Mediterranean. The boat came near to sinking, and Jonah was swallowed by a great fish. We can draw many lessons from his book, but perhaps the main lesson is that God can use even a man with no common sense.
The world says that if our kids fail at school it’s their fought. That's crap teachers are failing the students. Failing makes you smarter and stronger in a strange way. Some people don't take risks because they think they will fail. I have failed at many things, but I learned that failure is an event not a person. How do you know if you don't try? And if you do fail you learn, pick yourself up and try from a different approach and will excel with greatness. This is probably the biggest risk I have ever done in my life! I have no clue what’s ahead. I'm scared and nervous but determined. I see myself touching lost souls who are walking in the dark and I feel that God is leading me. I have always felt something for the ministry for the past 2 years but I didn't do anything about it. I'm looking forward to tomorrow and the promise that it brings.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
A conversation
Monday 21
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." Matt 7: 7-8
On my lunch hour I head to the Clear Creek Nursery. Mark Gilman knew the owner and and the supervisor. As I was about to walk in the store in the distance I heard an echo "Hey Hutch, Hutch!" It was Mark yelling my name. He was getting bark. I ran up to him fast. We talked and he isn't going to our church anymore thats sad. We talked and caught up he gave some advice. We both said goodbye. I went back inside the store and asked for Sean or Chris, "there not here" said the cashier. "Can I get an app please" I told her. "Sorry I don't keep them here, you can leave a note" "where is his office" I replied back. She pointed and said "around the corner" I went outside and tried to find his office their was all these buildings and plants everywhere with slow old people (sorry no offense) I was in a hurry I had 15 min until I went back to lunch. I went inside his office Chris was nowhere. I tried to find an app but none where found.
I was walking back to my truck I was kind of down. Then one of the women who worked their asked me "can I help you" I'm trying to find Chris and fill out an app" "their inside the store" "the cashier said she doesn't carry them" I told her. "follow me" I followed her and she gave me an app. I filled it out in my truck and walked back to Chris' office to put in their. Their was a man walking out " are you Chris" "No i'm Sean, can I help you" Sean is the owner of Clear Creek Nursery and friend of Mark Gilman "I'm Evan Hutchinson friend of Mark Gilman" as I shook his hand. "Oh yeah he told me about you" "Do you have any dump truck experience" "No just tractor and trailer, sir, but I'm a hard worker and have references to back that up" "I know Mark told me and what he says I trust. Well I will call you when I need you" "thanks" I shook his hand and walked back to my truck. As I was about to pull out Sean stopped me, "Hey you like working hard?" "yeah" "I can use as a laborer and go from their, I trust Mark, when can you start" "I have to give my 2 weeks" "Great call me later" I shook his hand again and went back to work.
I called Mark and said "I got the job and I owe you" "you don't owe me anything Hutch just remember me when we get to heaven" "I will brother". I called Lane, David, and Bob my mentors. I'm going to drive for this company when I start working for them don't know. But I'm going to take a risk quit Westbay and give it a shot what do I have to lose? Yes everything happens for a reason brother and sister. People ask for different things and doors to be open. Maybe its a new job, healing, comfort, to be loved and hold, a brighter future, quit smoking, drinking, whatever it maybe, pray. I learned things the hard way, and learned a failure is not a person its a event. Lonestar said in one of their songs Mountains
There are times in life when you gotta crawl
Lose your grip, trip and fall
When you can't lean on no-one else
That's when you find yourself
I've been around and I've noticed that
Walking's easier when the road is flat
Them danged ole hiils'll get you every time
Yeah, the good Lord gave us mountains
So we could learn how to climb
I have learned and gained experience from my mistakes. I have seen the dark and have been threw hell that's when I know thats my finest hour. When I climb and climb to the top, tired and cranky crying out in pain and redemption to my Maker for being stupid. On that mountain charging my way up their I see myself again. All these years that I have been a Christian, I'm just starting to get the message and grow. I believe this God wants me here for a reason. God brought me to my church parking lot for a reason. I thought I had everything going for me, I was wrong and blind. I need to move on. God takes his time we just need patience. I have a adventure to live in the wilderness. Follow Jesus and trust in him and we will live forever in peace.
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." Matt 7: 7-8
On my lunch hour I head to the Clear Creek Nursery. Mark Gilman knew the owner and and the supervisor. As I was about to walk in the store in the distance I heard an echo "Hey Hutch, Hutch!" It was Mark yelling my name. He was getting bark. I ran up to him fast. We talked and he isn't going to our church anymore thats sad. We talked and caught up he gave some advice. We both said goodbye. I went back inside the store and asked for Sean or Chris, "there not here" said the cashier. "Can I get an app please" I told her. "Sorry I don't keep them here, you can leave a note" "where is his office" I replied back. She pointed and said "around the corner" I went outside and tried to find his office their was all these buildings and plants everywhere with slow old people (sorry no offense) I was in a hurry I had 15 min until I went back to lunch. I went inside his office Chris was nowhere. I tried to find an app but none where found.
I was walking back to my truck I was kind of down. Then one of the women who worked their asked me "can I help you" I'm trying to find Chris and fill out an app" "their inside the store" "the cashier said she doesn't carry them" I told her. "follow me" I followed her and she gave me an app. I filled it out in my truck and walked back to Chris' office to put in their. Their was a man walking out " are you Chris" "No i'm Sean, can I help you" Sean is the owner of Clear Creek Nursery and friend of Mark Gilman "I'm Evan Hutchinson friend of Mark Gilman" as I shook his hand. "Oh yeah he told me about you" "Do you have any dump truck experience" "No just tractor and trailer, sir, but I'm a hard worker and have references to back that up" "I know Mark told me and what he says I trust. Well I will call you when I need you" "thanks" I shook his hand and walked back to my truck. As I was about to pull out Sean stopped me, "Hey you like working hard?" "yeah" "I can use as a laborer and go from their, I trust Mark, when can you start" "I have to give my 2 weeks" "Great call me later" I shook his hand again and went back to work.
I called Mark and said "I got the job and I owe you" "you don't owe me anything Hutch just remember me when we get to heaven" "I will brother". I called Lane, David, and Bob my mentors. I'm going to drive for this company when I start working for them don't know. But I'm going to take a risk quit Westbay and give it a shot what do I have to lose? Yes everything happens for a reason brother and sister. People ask for different things and doors to be open. Maybe its a new job, healing, comfort, to be loved and hold, a brighter future, quit smoking, drinking, whatever it maybe, pray. I learned things the hard way, and learned a failure is not a person its a event. Lonestar said in one of their songs Mountains
There are times in life when you gotta crawl
Lose your grip, trip and fall
When you can't lean on no-one else
That's when you find yourself
I've been around and I've noticed that
Walking's easier when the road is flat
Them danged ole hiils'll get you every time
Yeah, the good Lord gave us mountains
So we could learn how to climb
I have learned and gained experience from my mistakes. I have seen the dark and have been threw hell that's when I know thats my finest hour. When I climb and climb to the top, tired and cranky crying out in pain and redemption to my Maker for being stupid. On that mountain charging my way up their I see myself again. All these years that I have been a Christian, I'm just starting to get the message and grow. I believe this God wants me here for a reason. God brought me to my church parking lot for a reason. I thought I had everything going for me, I was wrong and blind. I need to move on. God takes his time we just need patience. I have a adventure to live in the wilderness. Follow Jesus and trust in him and we will live forever in peace.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Heartache and Cigarettes
Saturday May 17th 5:00 pm
I take a drag, shift into overdrive and head out west on Highway 3 blaring Montgomery Gentry on my speakers. The octane boost that I added to my gas kicks in and I’m gone. I’m tired and sunburned from helping Daniel move his sister. So I drank an Amp to keep me on my toes. As I cross the Hood Canal, birds are flying but they don’t look like it their just not in motion…their free. I see the Olympics in the background their still blanketed with snow. I arrive in Port Angeles at 6:30 and check in at the Port Side Inn. Rachel is in town from college break, I have not seen her in a year. I miss working with my old crew up here. She and David pick me up and we cruise the town. Sunday afternoon I woke up and went to the restaurant where I use to go and ordered a cheeseburger. I went to the gas station to buy some sun block but it was kind of overcast so their was really no point. Free and Easy by Dierks Bentley was playing, I couldn’t help it I accelerated top speed down 112. I finally arrived to the Elwha Valley where my old pad was at and drove up to the lake where I use to go.
I walked up the bank sat down and I talked to Him. I told him I surrender all and everything to him. That I didn’t care about finding work being over the road. That I thanked Him for letting me feel pain and that He took the pain away. That I was blind to his will and that I wasn’t listening. I believe that God closes doors, lets us feel pain, so we can get closer and be stronger in Him. Everything happens for a reason. Then He opens up doors to something special. And when you find that thing you are looking for, you grab it and hold on to it forever. These past 2 weeks have been total suck for me. I tried and applied to 7 truck companies to get out of Dodge because I couldn’t take the pain. I have been turned down left and right. I waited to long since I graduated and companies are no longer highering new people because the economy is going down they can’t afford it. A lot of companies are telling me that I need to go back to school. That’s another 4 weeks to 6 months plus 5 grand. I could find work for some companies but they treat you like crap. Maybe God wants me to stay here and take it like a man and deal with it. I realized this, God wants us to love and follow him and love one another. That’s it! I’m a moron sometimes. I have Jesus! I have a stable job that I like; I have a roof over my head, awesome friends. I have been getting more involved with my faith and Church. Sunday was one of the coolest days of my life. This is truly iron sharpening iron. I talked to my best friend of 13 years who led me to God my brother Micah. I last spoke to him in November he just dropped out of society. Micah wanted to be a cop, he was going to get married but his girlfriend left him again. He was down and started gambling. He putted her before God. He wasn’t doing his will. He moved back to California near San Diego. God brought him their. He went to all these churches to find a one to call home. He found one and he is living with the preacher and he is an intern their as a youth minister! He told me that he was a moron and just finally got the picture. He doesn’t have a career either. Him and I went threw the same stuff. We talked for an hour. He told me to read Matthew 6. I have read this thing over and over before. I read Matthew 6:25-34.
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[a]?
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
I read passages from the Bible and I get the message but it sometimes doesn’t go with the flow that I’m seeking. Now that I just read this one it hits me in the face like a tire iron. Rewind, hold the phone, and slap your grandma. Why I’m I freaking out and down for! God takes care of me and you. I have everything I can ask for. Then I just read Matthew 7: 7-8
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. I pray that if it is his will that he find me work and if not great. I pray that I be a better worker for him. God has been opening doors for me I just don’t realize it. He right now is pointing me somewhere I can sense it. I just need patience I don’t have I really need help on it. When doors close it wasn’t his will I just need to face that and realize that.
I’m 24, 24. I have a whole life to live (God willing) I realized I’m a free bird baby! I have hardly any bills, no mortgage, no car payments, I’m not in debt. I wear shorts to work and listen to music all day. My next 20 years are going to be a blast! I adopted this I don’t care attitude. I’m going to try not to worry about my life. I surrender my soul to God on that lake and now I’m back and ready to start working for the Kingdom. I’m going to be a bum and follow Jesus.
Honor.
Monday, April 28, 2008
My First Awesome Sermon
Shalom, it is an honor to be speaking to you today! I wouldn’t be up here right now if it was not for God Bringing me here to you 3 years ago on a Wednesday night in the parking lot. I wouldn’t be up here if it Wasn’t for David St. Martin baptizing me at Delano Bay. I wouldn’t be up here if it wasn’t for Arlene Crow handing me the book The 7 habits of highly Effective people and telling me “if I don’t see you Preaching between now and 20 years we have a Problem” something like that I can’t remember exactly What she said. I wouldn’t be up here if it wasn’t for Mark Gilman saying “Hutch I can see you on CNN, You need to have a brand name” I thought he was joking at First and maybe he is still but I took it Serious. These past four months I have been on this Positive self confidant streak it has been totally awesome! I got great positive feedback with the Hutch Tribune which got this whole Encouragement cycle going. I wouldn’t be nation wide if it wasn’t for Rhea and Michele Griffith saying I Should have a blog. You get where I’m going with this…We influence One another! , we encourage one Another! “As Iron sharpens Iron so one man sharpens another” That Comes from Proverbs 27:17.
Let’s go for a walk together.
I don’t care who you are, where you come from, your education background, your position in the workforce. You can’t make it in this life without God, family, friends and prayer. There is no way, if someone can prove me wrong I would like to hear about it. But I have proof that these 4 work, I lived it. Galatians 6:2 says this “Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ”.
I looked up burdens in the dictionary to be a official and it says a source of great worry or stress. February of last year. I went to truck driving school it was a 6 month course. When the 6 month came around it was time for my test. It was a bright Saturday morning I was sitting in my truck I was all alone in a vast open parking lot waiting for the instructor to show up. I was so nervous I could feel my truck shaking. The test was made up of 3 parts, pre trip inspection, the driving test, and backing. If I failed at any one of these I had to take the whole test over. I failed the pre trip inspection I was doing well until I got in the cab and messed up on my air brakes. I had to get a 100 percent on this. I called my parking brake my trailer brake I got my colors messed up… stupid red button. I had to wait another week. I wasn’t a happy camper that day. I told myself I’m giving up. Thursday came along and I went to Bob and Theresa’s for bible study. No one showed up it was just Bob and I. It was a good conversation between friends. I told him can we pray for my test on Saturday. I felt better after we prayed. When I was driving home that night I was motivated, I looked back on my life on how I got to school in the first place. I landed a 5000 dollar scholarship working for the Washington State Conversation Corps for a year. I was put on a crew of 6 working for the Olympic National Park in the mountains. I wanted to quit during the first 3 months but I stuck with it. In the end it taught me character, a better work ethic and what the American Dream is. I worked in the snow, rain, and hiked long miles, almost cut my foot off with a chainsaw. I almost went falling off a mountain, and a tree in Texas. I got lost for 11 hours in the mountains with nothing on me. I was thinking about all of this and I was going to give up just for naming a button wrong. On top of that I might have had to wait until July subtract 5 months from July you get February for you college people.
When I got home I sent out an email for prayers. I showed up Saturday and aced my test. When I felt my license in my hand it was one the coolest days of my life!
At the beginning of this month I took my HAZMAT endorsement for my CDL. In my opinion it is the most intense out of all the other endorsements. There is a lot of boring stuff that I had to study. I finally got focused after putting it off for almost 8 months. I studied everyday for a week and prayed to my Maker. Thursday night I sent out a prayer request for more support for my test. I showed up Sat morning confidant, with a positive attitude and aced it. When I was studying and when I was at work I got my self motivated, I pictured in my mind me passing my HAZMAT and driving a tanker. The test was easy, it was not that hard, actually it was common sense. Almost every question repeated itself. Positive attitude and positive thinking along with God and friends does go along way.
Mark told me that church is like a hospital for our spiritual health I never thought it like that. That’s awesome. These past 3 years I have learned what friendship is all about. I don’t come from a Christian family you guys are my family. Families stick together. It says in Proverbs 28:13. “He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.” I was living and telling you a lie for the past 3 years. Most of you know of my confession I’m not going to repeat it because I’m still not at peace with myself. It was eating my soul and I was tired of running. The night before my confession I was having a war with my conscious. I’m going to be talking in the third person I’m not a skitsofrentic. The good Hutch and the bad Hutch were trading jabs. The good Hutch was saying their not going to stone you. I think that they wouldn’t be that upset. Then the bad Hutch started talking mess you need to find another church or leave town. I was looking online at churches… I was a moron. Then the good Hutch said if they are truly your friends they would show compassion and not leave you. So I wrote my confession and went to sleep. I rolled up to church turned my engine off and sat their for a couple of minutes. The Hutch’s were still fighting, the bad Hutch said “you can leave now, or don’t say anything and pretend nothing happen”. I looked out my window and stared at our church steeple the sun was reflecting its rays off of it. I told myself I’m going for it. I got out and walked slowly I handed my note to Mark. Then I broke down in front of a couple of guys. I came back in sat between Bob and Dee my “grandparents”. As Mark was reading my confession I held onto Dees hand actually I think I was squeezing it. I was waiting for people to start jumping like monkeys and start tossing chairs around. They didn’t they gave me hugs. They never left.
I believe it’s a good idea to share goals with your friends and family. I found out that Goals means Godly objectives assure lasting success. In January I read this book called Over The Top by Zig Ziglar. It changed my life. It got me more motivated at my faith, work and relationships. Basically it was the groundwork for the Hutch Tribune. It talks about being content in what you have. It defines what you think about success not a worldly one. It talks about helping and encouraging people. In January I told my fellowship group and other people that I was going to quit drinking. That I was taking a break. When I say drinking I mean partying. I still have a beer once in awhile. I quit hanging out with my friends who were partying. People checked up on me and asked me how I was doing. They encouraged me. I found out that achieving goals is hard but it is also easy if you have support. Anyways that month I had no alcohol. God, the spirit took over my body, and every thing changed. This wave of positive self confidant energy came over me. I have been riding it ever since. There are days that I stumble and I get negative vibes. God has been blessing me. I got offered a promotion at my work but I turned it down because I would have to transfer stores and I like working with the crew I have now. Plus I’m not going to be at West Bay forever. I moved into a bigger place, I’m no longer living in a 25 foot villa on wheels. I can walk to my bathroom. I have cool friends, an awesome family, clothes on my back and a meal to eat every night. I believe that when I changed things changed for the better. A lot of doors have been opening and God willing I’m looking for the journey ahead.
I will leave you with this awesome poem.
We need each other...
In times of private pain, of fear and stress
We need each other...
to share our joys, our times of happiness
We need each other...
to hold on and be strong, and encourage when things are going wrong
We need each other...
to keep the faith and love, and remind each other of all the things we're dreaming of
We need each other... now and always.
Thank you God Bless you I love you.
Let’s go for a walk together.
I don’t care who you are, where you come from, your education background, your position in the workforce. You can’t make it in this life without God, family, friends and prayer. There is no way, if someone can prove me wrong I would like to hear about it. But I have proof that these 4 work, I lived it. Galatians 6:2 says this “Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ”.
I looked up burdens in the dictionary to be a official and it says a source of great worry or stress. February of last year. I went to truck driving school it was a 6 month course. When the 6 month came around it was time for my test. It was a bright Saturday morning I was sitting in my truck I was all alone in a vast open parking lot waiting for the instructor to show up. I was so nervous I could feel my truck shaking. The test was made up of 3 parts, pre trip inspection, the driving test, and backing. If I failed at any one of these I had to take the whole test over. I failed the pre trip inspection I was doing well until I got in the cab and messed up on my air brakes. I had to get a 100 percent on this. I called my parking brake my trailer brake I got my colors messed up… stupid red button. I had to wait another week. I wasn’t a happy camper that day. I told myself I’m giving up. Thursday came along and I went to Bob and Theresa’s for bible study. No one showed up it was just Bob and I. It was a good conversation between friends. I told him can we pray for my test on Saturday. I felt better after we prayed. When I was driving home that night I was motivated, I looked back on my life on how I got to school in the first place. I landed a 5000 dollar scholarship working for the Washington State Conversation Corps for a year. I was put on a crew of 6 working for the Olympic National Park in the mountains. I wanted to quit during the first 3 months but I stuck with it. In the end it taught me character, a better work ethic and what the American Dream is. I worked in the snow, rain, and hiked long miles, almost cut my foot off with a chainsaw. I almost went falling off a mountain, and a tree in Texas. I got lost for 11 hours in the mountains with nothing on me. I was thinking about all of this and I was going to give up just for naming a button wrong. On top of that I might have had to wait until July subtract 5 months from July you get February for you college people.
When I got home I sent out an email for prayers. I showed up Saturday and aced my test. When I felt my license in my hand it was one the coolest days of my life!
At the beginning of this month I took my HAZMAT endorsement for my CDL. In my opinion it is the most intense out of all the other endorsements. There is a lot of boring stuff that I had to study. I finally got focused after putting it off for almost 8 months. I studied everyday for a week and prayed to my Maker. Thursday night I sent out a prayer request for more support for my test. I showed up Sat morning confidant, with a positive attitude and aced it. When I was studying and when I was at work I got my self motivated, I pictured in my mind me passing my HAZMAT and driving a tanker. The test was easy, it was not that hard, actually it was common sense. Almost every question repeated itself. Positive attitude and positive thinking along with God and friends does go along way.
Mark told me that church is like a hospital for our spiritual health I never thought it like that. That’s awesome. These past 3 years I have learned what friendship is all about. I don’t come from a Christian family you guys are my family. Families stick together. It says in Proverbs 28:13. “He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.” I was living and telling you a lie for the past 3 years. Most of you know of my confession I’m not going to repeat it because I’m still not at peace with myself. It was eating my soul and I was tired of running. The night before my confession I was having a war with my conscious. I’m going to be talking in the third person I’m not a skitsofrentic. The good Hutch and the bad Hutch were trading jabs. The good Hutch was saying their not going to stone you. I think that they wouldn’t be that upset. Then the bad Hutch started talking mess you need to find another church or leave town. I was looking online at churches… I was a moron. Then the good Hutch said if they are truly your friends they would show compassion and not leave you. So I wrote my confession and went to sleep. I rolled up to church turned my engine off and sat their for a couple of minutes. The Hutch’s were still fighting, the bad Hutch said “you can leave now, or don’t say anything and pretend nothing happen”. I looked out my window and stared at our church steeple the sun was reflecting its rays off of it. I told myself I’m going for it. I got out and walked slowly I handed my note to Mark. Then I broke down in front of a couple of guys. I came back in sat between Bob and Dee my “grandparents”. As Mark was reading my confession I held onto Dees hand actually I think I was squeezing it. I was waiting for people to start jumping like monkeys and start tossing chairs around. They didn’t they gave me hugs. They never left.
I believe it’s a good idea to share goals with your friends and family. I found out that Goals means Godly objectives assure lasting success. In January I read this book called Over The Top by Zig Ziglar. It changed my life. It got me more motivated at my faith, work and relationships. Basically it was the groundwork for the Hutch Tribune. It talks about being content in what you have. It defines what you think about success not a worldly one. It talks about helping and encouraging people. In January I told my fellowship group and other people that I was going to quit drinking. That I was taking a break. When I say drinking I mean partying. I still have a beer once in awhile. I quit hanging out with my friends who were partying. People checked up on me and asked me how I was doing. They encouraged me. I found out that achieving goals is hard but it is also easy if you have support. Anyways that month I had no alcohol. God, the spirit took over my body, and every thing changed. This wave of positive self confidant energy came over me. I have been riding it ever since. There are days that I stumble and I get negative vibes. God has been blessing me. I got offered a promotion at my work but I turned it down because I would have to transfer stores and I like working with the crew I have now. Plus I’m not going to be at West Bay forever. I moved into a bigger place, I’m no longer living in a 25 foot villa on wheels. I can walk to my bathroom. I have cool friends, an awesome family, clothes on my back and a meal to eat every night. I believe that when I changed things changed for the better. A lot of doors have been opening and God willing I’m looking for the journey ahead.
I will leave you with this awesome poem.
We need each other...
In times of private pain, of fear and stress
We need each other...
to share our joys, our times of happiness
We need each other...
to hold on and be strong, and encourage when things are going wrong
We need each other...
to keep the faith and love, and remind each other of all the things we're dreaming of
We need each other... now and always.
Thank you God Bless you I love you.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Sweet
This week has been totally awesome actually these 2 weeks have been a blast! My new pad is almost done. It is bigger than my 27 foot villa on wheels. I finally passed my HAZMAT for my CDL. I just got offered a job promotion at my work but I turned it down because I would have to transfer to another store. And the new store that I would go to, the management is bad and the people their don't look happy. I like where I'm at right now. I couldn't stand for 9 hrs selling parts. But what is cool about this is that I got noticed by the higher up guys. I always try to smile at work somedays it is hard. But when you smile it confuses people "why is that person smiling about" I will tell you why. This is America the Land Of Opportunity. Immigrants came over and said Gosh! this place is full of opportunity here! I have been blessed with a place over my head, I have clothes on my back, a meal to eat every night, a warm bed to sleep on, and a job that I get to go to every morning. Thats why I smile all the times. Because God has been good to me. I'm wealthier than most people in other parts of the world and I don't make that much. I'm telling you a smile, postive attitude, stay busy at work does go along way. Be obediant to God also comes in handy cause when I obey him he starts opening doors for me. God is awesome even when I'm in darkness of despair. I have so much to be thankful for. Doors are starting to open up for me.
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