I’m great with animals. They love me. We get each other. I got that touch. 👉 That’s what she said. With one exception. Effin Horses!
I’ve tried twice in my life to ride them and almost got killed both times. No joke. That second time, it was a miracle I didn’t die.
I’m going to save this story for my trucking stories series that’s coming soon. Because it’s related to that.
There’s three things in life that I’ve learned can smell fear, pitbulls, bees, and horses. The first two are a bees. I mean breeze. 🐝
Here’s two great songs. One is about a horse. I hope ya enjoy them and thanks for listening. 🐎💥🔫
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Tennessee StudI Don’t Care If Tomorrow Never Comes
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I took this pic tonight and the blue highlight on my guitar is reflecting from the TV screen. Pretty neat and it happened a second before I snapped the pic.
I have many cool and crazy stories from my truck driving career. So i think I’ll do a new series. It may not be a weekly thing just as I have time and get them penned. Some I may use for my book in the future.
I drove for about 17 years, from 97 to 2oO8 then I worked in ministry from 2oO8-12 then I started driving again from 2o12-16. Then I hung it up for a little bit.
Then from 2o17-19 I drove a straight truck for my church thriftstore. It’s not what you think of when you think thriftstore… they do millions in sales every year. In between this time i also went on some mission trips around the world.
It’s nice working for your church. It’s flexible lol.
Some of my career was spent all over the US running solo, with a handful of different companies and team driving and training new drivers. I ran local in Atlanta for some years and Florida too. I had my own truck and business also for awhile in Atlanta.
In fact… I could write a thick Bible of just these stories.
I got some good ones.
But we’ll leave that for the reader to decide. 😎
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Featured image credit to Big Rig Jig by Mike Ross Studios – Street Art Cities
Seems I always have a song playing inside me. I often wake up in the night or in the morning with different ones in my heart and on my lips.
This song here, I’ve had in me for like a week now. It’s from 2oO3, I think. I’m a big Pat Green fan. I used to do this one often on piano at a bar I played at back in the day.
That reminds me… I need to get another piano or a nice keyboard. But I like an actual piano better.
Early on in my life, this song was spiritual for me, but now it’s taken on a whole new meaning.
Anyway, this song reminds me of my girlfriend. I recorded it yesterday for her. She’s a special lady. Beautiful inside and out.
So here’s one for all the great wives and future wives.
When I was 19, I decided to get a tattoo of a black tribal sun on my stomach. I thought it was so cool at the time lol. Over the years, though, my buddies would make fun of me. Whenever I’d take my shirt off, they’d start singing “Black Hole Sun” by Soundgarden all loud and dramatic. 😂
So yeah, I can’t stand that song today, and you’ll never hear me cover it. 😁
But here’s some great American music for ya that I can stand. I hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening. 😎
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I’ve been a believer for a very long time, since I was a child in the early 1980s. I’ve always believed. No one had to teach me or convince me of God’s existence. I have been in conversation with Him since I was a little boy. Since I can remember. He reached out to me first. He’s my Daddy.
As a child, I had a close relationship with Him, and later my mother and father got saved and started going to church. They are both Southern Baptists. My family is set in their beliefs. Let me tell you. They think the Baptist way is the only way Jose.
I was raised up with these same denominational-type beliefs. Then, in 2oO8, I got involved with a Pentecostal charismatic ministry that was connected to many other churches and denominations, and I ended up working closely with them. It was so eye-opening for me, and through this, I was exposed to different beliefs and positions. And I really started taking a super close look at, “What are the real truths? What do I believe, and why do I believe it?” This is when I really started down the theology road.
All this was a blessing and helped me discover the truth in Scripture because it’s amazing to me how people can read the same things but come away with different underlying truths and meanings.
One thing I have learned and know with certainty is that we all believe things that aren’t true. Me, you, your parents, your spouse, your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers, your pastor, your priest, Father Whats-His-Face, your church, your denomination—we all believe certain things that are not accurate. Far off even.
Protestants, Catholics, Muslims, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, agnostics, those who just don’t care, etc. All believe things that aren’t true. And here’s the kicker: truth is truth whether we believe it or not, and a lie is a lie even if everyone believes it.
And a second kick would be that most of us don’t realize that we are believing these untrue things. I mean, how could we? We are so zealous and passionate. We think we are right. We feel so strongly about them. We even think it’s from God, that He, the Holy Spirit, is confirming our beliefs in us. Or it’s traditional things handed down from long ago that have created strongholds in our heads that we just don’t question. Maybe it’s our culture, how we were taught and brought up.
Regardless. It is what it is. The best thing we can do is realize this and understand that it applies to us all, and then try and go from there.
And that brings me to something else that’s been on my heart for a few years, actually, and something I notice more and more these days.
First, let me say I have some wonderful Christian friends. I have some wonderful friends who don’t believe in God. And some who are in between. They all are extraordinary people, and I’m so blessed to know them and call them my friends. And what I’m about to say is not an attack at anyone, just an observation. And I’m connected to some great churches and groups through my ministry, bryanforchrist. Just great people all around me.
So there’s something I’ve noticed on online Christian platforms. And in real life, too. But it’s like many are so super spiritual these days that they are no earthly good. It’s like they are walking around with Jerusalem syndrome or something and the personality of a tennis ball. It’s even hard to have normal conversations with them. Everything becomes so serious. A huge, dramatic spiritual dilemma. And I get it. I know our battle is a spiritual one. But still.
And you may be thinking, “Well, everything is so serious, brother Bryan!” And you would be right, Pastor Wally. But it can still be serious without being so serious all the time. 😎
And some are ready to speak into your life with a message. One from God. To you.
I can give you many examples, but just recently, someone on another platform sent me this long message telling me what I should do in my life and that it wasn’t them speaking, but that it was a God thing.
That’s great and all, and I really appreciate the heart behind it. But see, here’s the thing: the Lord already told me what to do, lol, and it wasn’t what you said. So maybe that wasn’t God speaking to you. Just sayin’. 🤷♂️
Oh, and before I forget… that same Pharisaic religious spirit that was alive and well in Christ’s day is going just as strong today, and it can take hold of believers without them even knowing. If you crack the door for it, it will wiggle its foot in on ya.
I’m just ranting a bit now, but yeah, I don’t want to be associated with this kind of thing, and I keep it out of my inner circle, but I pray for them wholeheartedly. Things aren’t always on point. I understand this. I know life can sometimes find us naked, tiptoeing through a minefield of sleeping, rabid porcupines. 🦔
Even spiritual ones. 😳
So anyways, I’m not trying to make a big deal about any of this. I’m just at a place today where I’m not falling in line with the culture I’m seeing. I used to, though. But now I’m a rogue. It’s just things I notice. And people are people; we are all different, of course. I get it. Just go be different over there, and I’ll hang out here, play my guitar, sing some songs, say some things, and laugh a little or even alot when I can, lol.
One Halloween when I was like 13, me and a couple of my friends decided to dress up like girls.
My mama and sister hooked me up with shoes and a dress and a stuffed bra and pantyhose and a wig and a purse haha. Then they sat me down in a chair and did my make-up for me.
I must have sat there an hour, and they were both laughing and cracking up the entire time. But toward the end, they were just like, “OMG OMG WAIT TILL YOU SEE!”
I wasn’t in front of a mirror while they were doing it.
When they finally finished, I went to the bathroom and checked myself out, and it just blew me away. I couldn’t believe it.
It creeped me out.
I looked just like my mother. 🙆♂️
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featured image is me and my sister and two step brothers on the right
I just have so much going on in my life currently. My mother is sick and in the hospital, and my girlfriend is recovering from an accident that should have killed her. It’s a miracle she’s still alive.
It’s a miracle I’m still alive too, and I’ve been holding on to a promise from God for twenty years now. Ever since I was 33 years old.
And now is this time, and this is the season.
These next two songs… I’m living them out currently, so the words felt special as I sang them.
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Whom Shall I Fear (God of Angel Armies)Born Again
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us gingers gotta stick together.
featured image of the angels is from Montzalee Wittmann on Pinterest
