Tuesday, August 2, 2016

triumph reborn archives

Triumph Reborn was a blog I started after this blog, I eventually changed the name and turned it into a picture blog called rebirthed sky because I wasn't getting the amount of views of the site that I expected.  All the posts are archives from that blog.  the disclaimer at the end was on all these posts plus another one that I'm not reposting and will be on all future posts on this blog.  In addition, I reactivated the fan page for this blog: https://www.facebook.com/leavingthedarkfortruth

True Love (posted on 5/30/15)

I wonder when will I know true love?  I'm not talking about the love that causes you to marry someone.  I'm talking about the love that only God can give.  I've never received God's love fully.  I only seem to get glimpses of it, its so mysterious to me, it scares me, and I don't understand it.  I hope one day to reach that place in my life when I can accept God's love freely.

s.e.x. (posted on 6/1/15)

I ran away from God for years and all it produced was emptiness. 

I remember being in tech school and thinking if I only have sex, I'll be fulfilled.  I wasn't Romeo so I never got laid but I did have my heart broken.  There nothing worse than having to hear a girl you were into and hung out with (for months) having sex with somebody twice her age and thinking to yourself in one hand shit that could have been me and on the other hand thank God, that I was protected from everything that comes with premarital sex.  I didn't have the nerve to leave the hall, so it was torture but I eventually moved on and didn't waste my time trying to hook up with any women after that stinging incident.

Repaired not healed (posted on 7/27/15)

When I was a child.  I knew I was different and I knew I wanted to be healed of my cleft palate and lip.  I'm still waiting for God to heal me.

When people tell me that babies and others are healed of cleft palate and lips and then act because I had corrective surgery to repair it.  That God wouldn't want to completely restore my nose (insult).  These people think that western medicine is my only answer.  When the truth is, it was the beginning of my healing not the completion of it.  I want God to finish what the surgeon started.  When people think that adults like me who had corrective surgery for cleft palate/lip and other conditions and act like the surgery is the end of it, it ignores Gods power, it also ignores the simple fact that I do not have the same breathing capacity as my friends because a surgeon can only cut out so much cartilage from your nose.  Think I'm lying talk to Michael Jackson. 

When you pray over my nose.  You're showing me love.  In addition, if you do this you will not just hit the physical, your going to hit emotional wounds.  When you do that your directly assaulting the enemy's work in my life and if that doesn't excite you.  Their is something wrong with you.

You think I have a powerful testimony now, how more powerful would it be if I was completely healed of this...

enjoyments (11/24/15)

cynicism... its how you blind yourself to the truth
anger... its a way to hang yourself.
judgment... its how friends kick you, when they don't understand you.

happy thanksgiving

this isn't aimed at anybody before I get shit from people on facebook.

I'm such a happy person!

A DISCLAIMER

I ask that if this post bothers you.  You pray before you talk to me about it because prayer matters.  A harsh word stirs up anger.  I dare you to pray over the pain that will be discussed in these posts but I ask that you don't turn me into a ministry project.  In addition, if I anger you because of something I write.  Do me a favor look in the mirror first because I'm probably provoking a wound in you, unintentionally.  If that isn't the case pray before we talk.

Monday, August 1, 2016

my requirements for a future girlfriend

They have to value purity and their relationship w/ God.

Believe and practice the gifts of the Holy Spirit

My girlfriend has to be supportive of my dream of being a professional comic and not try to kill my dream once I marry the girl.  This support could mean the following: moving to a bigger metro area and me being away for wks at a time.  My ultimate goal is take my wife & kids w/ me on the road because to many comics get divorced.  In addition, I will only move if God tells us both to move.

God comes first in our relationship

My girlfriend can't be desperate or flirty because both are signs of unhealed wounds.

My girlfriend has to be at least 25 (or close to it) because I'm in my mid-thirties.  My age shouldn't eliminate me for being a potential boyfriend because the fact is I don't look my age which should be a bonus.  In addition, the fruit in my life should be what causes the girl to say, hey matt pick me or thanks but I'll pass, not my age.

I like pretty girls and I like those pretty girls not to use food as a coping mechanism to deal w/ pain whether that's eating too much, too little or binging purging etc.

We have to be friends whether that's developing a friendship threw the dating process or deepening a friendship by dating.

I'm looking for a wife not a superficial relationship

A short list of my requirements as the boyfriend and this isn't exhaustive, so if I forgot something don't get all offended

That I treat my girlfriend w/ honor, respect, and dignity because I witnessed growing up an angry father who used his words to destroy his family, as God is my witness I will Never, Never use my wounds as an excuse to lash out at my kids and wife like my father did.  I've forgiven my father for his deeds and he's mellowed out with age, but that doesn't excuse his actions.  I will not retrace those steps and get sucked into the web of verbal abuse.  I'm no sucker.  This will no longer be apart of my family line.  My kids will learn the proper way to treat a woman.

That I honor her purity by waiting till the wedding night to have sex with her whether she's a virgin or not both deserve to be cherished and honored.  Plus that night should be special for her.

That I honor and value her dreams.

The Holy Spirit is the third person in our relationship

That I encourage her as a girlfriend, wife, and mother.

That I listen to her even when I can't stand all the talking because her opinions are worth it

that I have a job so I can support her and my family, I'm currently pursuing employment 4 interviews so far, the most recent one today.

finally I'm not posting this to get a girlfriend, I'm posting this so people know the truth.