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The neighbors are quiet tonight. No loud talk of warrants, prison, federal warrants, state mental hospitals, etc.
People in general aren't quite as cruel. Part of God's work in my life (and my family's lives, too) was blessing my family's long years of hard work with now more upper-middle/upper class status. If they hadn't moved up in the world, I'd be a statistic.
I pray this continues. My probation officer (I have a first offense misdemeanor, sentenced to the max of 5 years probation) wants me discharged from probation sometime early in the new year, after drug test (I don't use drugs, so that's not an issue). I'm blessed, assuming a judge will sign off on it. Misdemeanor probation isn't terrible--pay money monthly, check in every 3 months--but I'd rather be completely free, of course. The only reason this is happening is because of God's work in my life. If I'd been put on probation before, I'd be in jail or a mental hospital right now.
I'm hoping and praying that people from my past will leave me alone. There are/were rumors going around that I raped a female I used to hang out with, back when we were both in our late teens. I didn't, of course. There was an unfortunate semi-hook up when were both loaded on Ambien and who knows what else, but...yeah, I was a flamer back then. Other people from my past don't much care for me, except one girl I talk to now and then. She's in grad school. Her dad has severe bipolar I. She encourages me, and I try to drop big hints about Jesus.
I might make an A in one of my 2 classes this sub-term. Maybe both of them (my grade in one is exactly 90 and the other is very high 80s...I'm getting nervous, lol). When I tried to go back to a state school 7 years ago, I wasn't smart enough to be there, but I didn't know it. :-( And now...
...now, there's Liberty online. Funny. When I was an unbeliever, I despised Christianity. Catholics, maybe; Born Again Christians, no way. Now, I'm quite appreciative of Liberty. Less pretenious than the 3rd tier state school I went to before, more challenging, and I learn more. The professors are tough, but they aren't tough for the sake of being hard on people for their own ego's sake (trust me, lots of profs at secular colleges play that game). I write well, so I get graded a little bit harder. No typos allowed, lol.
I realize now that I'm not entitled to any of this. According to the rules of the secular world--especially the rules of my former shrinks, who despise me--"there's no such thing as second chances." Turns out...there's a God in Heaven who hears the cries of even the most despised and lowly amongst us. Even me.
I even get along well with my parents. Even my dad. FYI: Flaming homosexuals often have bad relationships with their same-sex parents. I don't know about more conventionally masculine homosexuals.
So, yeah...that's my praise report. Good news, good news, good news. I just wish people would stop talking about warrants, federal warrants, prison, mental hospitals, etc. I bought a membership to a public records search place. There's nothing there (I searched warrants AND arrests AND convictions).
Praise God, and thanks, everybody, for providing a place where I can come and get feed back. I'm also learning to be helpful to others.
People in general aren't quite as cruel. Part of God's work in my life (and my family's lives, too) was blessing my family's long years of hard work with now more upper-middle/upper class status. If they hadn't moved up in the world, I'd be a statistic.
I pray this continues. My probation officer (I have a first offense misdemeanor, sentenced to the max of 5 years probation) wants me discharged from probation sometime early in the new year, after drug test (I don't use drugs, so that's not an issue). I'm blessed, assuming a judge will sign off on it. Misdemeanor probation isn't terrible--pay money monthly, check in every 3 months--but I'd rather be completely free, of course. The only reason this is happening is because of God's work in my life. If I'd been put on probation before, I'd be in jail or a mental hospital right now.
I'm hoping and praying that people from my past will leave me alone. There are/were rumors going around that I raped a female I used to hang out with, back when we were both in our late teens. I didn't, of course. There was an unfortunate semi-hook up when were both loaded on Ambien and who knows what else, but...yeah, I was a flamer back then. Other people from my past don't much care for me, except one girl I talk to now and then. She's in grad school. Her dad has severe bipolar I. She encourages me, and I try to drop big hints about Jesus.
I might make an A in one of my 2 classes this sub-term. Maybe both of them (my grade in one is exactly 90 and the other is very high 80s...I'm getting nervous, lol). When I tried to go back to a state school 7 years ago, I wasn't smart enough to be there, but I didn't know it. :-( And now...
...now, there's Liberty online. Funny. When I was an unbeliever, I despised Christianity. Catholics, maybe; Born Again Christians, no way. Now, I'm quite appreciative of Liberty. Less pretenious than the 3rd tier state school I went to before, more challenging, and I learn more. The professors are tough, but they aren't tough for the sake of being hard on people for their own ego's sake (trust me, lots of profs at secular colleges play that game). I write well, so I get graded a little bit harder. No typos allowed, lol.
I realize now that I'm not entitled to any of this. According to the rules of the secular world--especially the rules of my former shrinks, who despise me--"there's no such thing as second chances." Turns out...there's a God in Heaven who hears the cries of even the most despised and lowly amongst us. Even me.
I even get along well with my parents. Even my dad. FYI: Flaming homosexuals often have bad relationships with their same-sex parents. I don't know about more conventionally masculine homosexuals.
So, yeah...that's my praise report. Good news, good news, good news. I just wish people would stop talking about warrants, federal warrants, prison, mental hospitals, etc. I bought a membership to a public records search place. There's nothing there (I searched warrants AND arrests AND convictions).
Praise God, and thanks, everybody, for providing a place where I can come and get feed back. I'm also learning to be helpful to others.
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