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Making Changes....
Posted on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 at 1:36 PM by Robby Roberts
OK, I've decided to tinker with the look of my blog... ignore any funky formatting over the next few days as I experiment with different templates, then tweak them to my liking...
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2 years....
Posted on Monday, September 22, 2008 at 8:14 PM by Robby Roberts
Two years ago today (09/22/2006) my then wife of 10 1/2 years, who was pregnant with our first child, and I signed the closing paperwork on our first home. We were excited. Yeah, we were out of pocket over $20,000 down payment and closing, but we didn't care! We had a new home and a baby on the way
Less than a month later, on October 14th, we lost the baby. The same week that Patti lost her (Step)Grandmother to cancer.
Less than a year after our closing (Labor Day, 2007), Patti walks out the door. I won't go into details, but our marriage was over. By December, 2007, the divorce was final.
In March of 2008, I find out that I may be a daddy, but those hopes are
dashed not long after the little fella is born in July.
And, how
do I "Celebrate" my 2 years after closing? Cleaning my belongings out of
the house. I have been given until October 18th, then I must turn the
keys over to the mortgage company.
I sit here writing this in my "New place" - an 11x12 room with nothing of my own my my clothes, my computer, my cats and my TV. Everything I own is packed into storage. The bed I am laying my head on is not even mine. I have moved it all my self. No help from my so called friends. No response to emails or phone calls. Emails some claim they never got... but I have the Read Receipts that say otherwise.
Well, there is ONE thing else I have here that is my own... the tears running down my cheek.....
Running on God Power
Posted on Sunday, September 28, 2008 at 7:37 PM by Robby Roberts
Today Pastor Tony was talking about how we have to depend on God's power to help us, how we can't run on our own power for long. I've never doubted that. What, I never knew was just how long someone could run on God Power only.
See, my batteries feel dead... not dead as in they need to be recharged, but dead as in they won't hold a charge of their own anymore. Like an old laptop I have that runs fine on the external power supply, but as soon as you pull that plug, it sputters and dies. I've been running on nothing BUT God's power for a couple of years now. It's what gets me out of bed in the morning, cause I know that I lost the will to do it myself a long time ago. It's what dives me to work out, and to lose weight. If it had been up to me, I probably would have put ON 130 lbs in this last year, not lost it.
No, I have not run off of my own power at all for about 4 years now. My batteries are dead, worn out, shattered and leaking acid...
Just pray that no one trips over my God power cord and unplugs me before I can find replacement batteries...