Saweet,...so this is blog,....la da da da... As inspired from a Disney tune on Cinderella I believe,..haha
You can stop reading now if you like, cuz it probably won't start to make any more sense later on. I don't even know who's gonna read this, so I dunno where I should start....the beginning just might be the best...so i was born in Swift Current Sk on a cold January day in Saskatchewan in 1986....??Just kidding...not that far back.
After high-school in Caronport, I came up to Saskatoon for Uni and after a couple years of that, I really didn't like it and got a job at Pepsi thru a guy that I didn't really know that well at that time. The money was pretty good and it was definitely enough to pay the bills for the time being. There was much to much partying goin on and eventually Heather and I stopped to going to church completely due to a lack of sleep as well as little desire to confront our way of life at that time. I was doing whatever I wanted to do and had little concern for God or others. Everyone fell in love with The Danimal at parties and stuff and I eventually fell in love with that too. Not so much the drinking and meeting new people and personalities, but kind of with the pride and status that it brought me.
I didn't think that I would ever be in the spot that I had come to be living in every day, but it happened. It was a very gradual process but looking back, it all seemed so easy! Too easy... Satan definitely is a master at luring and decieving people toward himself. Last April, it all came to a fork in my road... Heather wasn't in the house anymore and I did whatever I wanted to do, whenever I wanted to do it. Had a couple roommates last summer and we were always ready for a party and some crazy adventures. It's a good thing that I was on disability for my back because I probably wouldn't still be working for Pepsi if I had to work every day at 6:30. It's a good thing I had my harley to keep a large portion of my summertime occupied. I think that's truely why I had the bike for less than a year due to it's sale last week.
I remember thinking at one point just this last fall that there was no way that I could ever go back to the church and back to a daily discipline of building a relationship with God. Never in my scariest dreams did I think those thoughts would be in my mind. In about the middle of December, I didn't have an urge to go and seek out a party or someone to chill with and I chilled with Ferg in my house. Alone. And thru some reading in the message version of Romans, God was able to speak to me. Or rather, I was able to hear his still small voice.
Starting in Chapter 1 at verse 18, there is a title: Ignoring God leads to a downward spiral. There are some very powerul and blunt passages that kicked me in the butt, and in the head. It was then that my mind started to think a bit clearer and I soon cut drinking and partying down in my life, but not completely out. I prayed for God to provide people in my life that could help me out of the pit that my whole life was in, and miraculously, he provided. Imagine that? haha... I thank all those people very very much for their love and compassion. And for all those who were praying for me the whole time all this stuff was going on. I know that it wouldn't have happened if thier words hadn't gradually softened my heart to open the Bible and kind of seek God once again.
I got involved in a College and Career group at Ebeneezer Baptist Church which has been awesome; I attend Cornerstone Church every Sunday that I am in the city; I have participated in the bus ministry i which I help with a team of peers that go to a parking lot on 20th st and ave. P in Saskatoon and low income people and families come and share laughter, friendship, sandwhiches, and a word from the Bible every Friday from 10:00-midnight.
Which all brings me to where I am at this point. Kind of,...hahaha....there's alot more depth to many of these areas but I think that this is a good first blog. It's good for me! Not sure why I even got the urge to do this...?
If anyone has questions or feel that you should talk to me about any of this stuff,...feel free! Facebook or hotmail are both checked often.
Have a sweet day. God bless you and your time for reading this
Dano
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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Danielson - I thank God every day that you've "returned to your own land" like He promised me you would! God is so good and He does answer prayers! Thank you for sharing this part of your story - I pray it will be an encouragement to all who read it. I've so proud of you and I love you more than you'll ever know!
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