hi all 
just wanted to stop in and say hi.... I guess a few bio details are in order ehhh? I am 44, disabled due to numerous low back fusions and a neck fusion, and as a result of the many operations and the trauma of dealing with the pain meds and the side effects, plus my inability to work my wife asked me to leave the home this past September...I think she wants to trade me in for a newer model I have 4 kids, 2 daughters, a 23 yr old daughter (she was born when I was living a very wild lifestyle, I was only 16 when she was born) and with my wife, we have 1 daughter, 20, and 3 boys ages 17, 11 and 7. I am a former Marine and construction worker, I injured my back in 1988 doing something I had done literally hundreds of times before, simply playing a game of basketball and never had any back problems of any kind until that day..... after 17 different operations and out patient procedures, plus one near fatal staph infection after lamenectomy number 3 which went into my bloodstream (of course) and spinal column, I am still suffer from fairly high levels of chronic pain.
I originally became a Christian in 1981, was led to Christ by a dear lady who lived in the same apartment building, she went to a Pentecostal church and I went there for quite a number of months, however, I never spoke in tongues so the pastoral leadership team began to question my salvation.... or they said I was keeping some "secret sin" and this is why the holy Spirit was not blessing me with "THE" gift.... so I eventually figured they were right about me not being saved, figured God did not love me, so I fell away for a long time.... it wasn't until the late 80's, after being hurt, did I start to go o church again... still... no tongues, but I finally started checking into doctrine, systematic theology, apologetics, etc an when I did, I found how wrong those people in my early Christian life were... so after being hurt and having to be retrained because I could no longer do physically demanding work, I had the opportunity to go to college with the help of a federal government program called Vocational Rehabilitation. I went to Indiana Univ. at South Bend, Goshen College Goshen Indiana, and eventually graduated with a degree in biblical counseling with a double minor in Systematic Theology and Apologetics from Grace College and Seminary in Winona Lake Indiana.... I am thankful to have had the opportunity to work for a few places for a few years, but eventually my recurring injuries caused me to become totally and permanently disabled.
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life is hard, but God is good
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I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future
blessings,
Ken
ps... I guess I should explain my name... sometimes people see "maniac" and they get a bit concerned about me no need to fear... I coined the term because of my love of a particular branch of philosophy called "Epistemology", which is the study of the nature of knowledge, how we know what we know and why....
just wanted to stop in and say hi.... I guess a few bio details are in order ehhh? I am 44, disabled due to numerous low back fusions and a neck fusion, and as a result of the many operations and the trauma of dealing with the pain meds and the side effects, plus my inability to work my wife asked me to leave the home this past September...I think she wants to trade me in for a newer model
I have 4 kids, 2 daughters, a 23 yr old daughter (she was born when I was living a very wild lifestyle, I was only 16 when she was born) and with my wife, we have 1 daughter, 20, and 3 boys ages 17, 11 and 7. I am a former Marine and construction worker, I injured my back in 1988 doing something I had done literally hundreds of times before, simply playing a game of basketball and never had any back problems of any kind until that day..... after 17 different operations and out patient procedures, plus one near fatal staph infection after lamenectomy number 3 which went into my bloodstream (of course) and spinal column, I am still suffer from fairly high levels of chronic pain. I originally became a Christian in 1981, was led to Christ by a dear lady who lived in the same apartment building, she went to a Pentecostal church and I went there for quite a number of months, however, I never spoke in tongues so the pastoral leadership team began to question my salvation.... or they said I was keeping some "secret sin" and this is why the holy Spirit was not blessing me with "THE" gift.... so I eventually figured they were right about me not being saved, figured God did not love me, so I fell away for a long time.... it wasn't until the late 80's, after being hurt, did I start to go o church again... still... no tongues, but I finally started checking into doctrine, systematic theology, apologetics, etc an when I did, I found how wrong those people in my early Christian life were... so after being hurt and having to be retrained because I could no longer do physically demanding work, I had the opportunity to go to college with the help of a federal government program called Vocational Rehabilitation. I went to Indiana Univ. at South Bend, Goshen College Goshen Indiana, and eventually graduated with a degree in biblical counseling with a double minor in Systematic Theology and Apologetics from Grace College and Seminary in Winona Lake Indiana.... I am thankful to have had the opportunity to work for a few places for a few years, but eventually my recurring injuries caused me to become totally and permanently disabled.
or
life is hard, but God is good
or
I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future
blessings,
Ken
ps... I guess I should explain my name... sometimes people see "maniac" and they get a bit concerned about me
no need to fear... I coined the term because of my love of a particular branch of philosophy called "Epistemology", which is the study of the nature of knowledge, how we know what we know and why....
