A little over a year ago I started a journey. That journey was to be the man I would like to be. I wanted to be a good example to my children of how to conduct their lives and how to treat people. One year ago today I decided to stop cussing/swearing and using any form of profane words. Not just in front of my kids, but at all. At first it was a real struggle. I had gotten to the point were swearing was almost automatic and had become part of my language. The scary part to me was that I took the Lord God's name in vain on a consistent basis. Not a good thing if you are a church going person. To say the least it is one of the Ten Commandments. Now, some people might disagree with me, but I believe God will test a person to see how serious they are about things. Or better yet, allow the tests to be con
ducted if you will have that. I have never stubbed my toes more than I did in the first three weeks of trying to quit. Seemed like every piece of furniture in the house moved out in the way. I also believe God has a sense of humor as well. I am glad to say that I recently got hurt on the job and it never occurred to me to sware or cuss. I will say I did slip once about February and my son was present. I have pretty much eliminated that from my language. This is a good thing as my son was beginning to pick it up and had started using the language at school.
ducted if you will have that. I have never stubbed my toes more than I did in the first three weeks of trying to quit. Seemed like every piece of furniture in the house moved out in the way. I also believe God has a sense of humor as well. I am glad to say that I recently got hurt on the job and it never occurred to me to sware or cuss. I will say I did slip once about February and my son was present. I have pretty much eliminated that from my language. This is a good thing as my son was beginning to pick it up and had started using the language at school. 
I guess the only thing I am disappointed with is that I haven't yet finished reading the bible. I made it my goal to finish it by the end of the year back in May of 2009. Unfortunately I have read a little bit here and there, but I am no where near finishing it. I started with the Old Testament and I am up to the first book of Kings. Long way to go. My son is reading it as I told him it is the early history of the world. I have a lot more work to do to be the man I want to be or better yet the man I believe God would have me be. I just hope God is pleased with the progress over the past year. I don't miss using that language at all and I am glad I stared this journey.
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i am disappointed in myself that i havent read the bible as much as i used too. and i still swear as i type. i have stopped completley in verbal form. but, i type ghetto. oh so ghetto. nothing to be proud in. i am interested in your injury on the job. please email me. since i am not suing my employer about mine i'll tell you one thing. when i was injured i felt like the hands of God cradled me in that trailor that day while on the forklift. i came out of the trailor without whiplash or anything. i couldnt lie about it and go to the doc. all i could do was tell everyone how God saved me. they had to take a fork lift outside to lift the trailor up while the tractor trailor got back under it. it was a pretty scary time. but, the whole time i felt saved and very blessed. i hope you had a similar issue. i can honestly tell you i wasnt scared about what had happened to me until everything was all over and 24 hours had passed by. then i realized how very blessed i was to see another day and not have any back injury. normally you just hit me wrong lightly and my back hurts. i havent had any problems like that since that day. it was like i was healed too.
Great Job Ritchie..
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