Loss: friends, grandparents, parents… self-righteousness, sin, guilt, shame, condemnation… I’ll take it.

Gain: weight, years, aches, pains… Christ’s righteousness, Jo Anny, Chesed, Charisa… How can I complain?

There is so much more to say… but, honestly, I never thought I’d live til 40.

I am blessed to pastor Old Powhatan Baptist Church. I am blessed with great friends.

And my life from July 4, 2015 is a blank page that God can fill out however He has planned and designed. I’m ready.