Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Well it want be long now.


It want be long before my son Brandon and I will be heading back to the drag track. This was our first car we set up. We took this 1980 Z28 Camaro out of a field two years ago with weeds growing up all around it and in it. We pulled it out and put our personal touches on it. Brandon came up with the paint design and I applied the necessary colors. This was our project we did together and enjoyed every day we spent together on the project. It was a hard thing for us to do but we traded the Camaro this year for the S10 Truck. I have it in my shop now getting it ready for it's new paint scheme. We will have it ready in a few weeks and headed back to the track.

It want be long before we start running again.

Well I have been working on the new drag truck for my oldest son Brandon. I am getting ready to put a new paint scheme on it. We will be taking it to the track in a few weeks to see what kind of times we can run. We have so much fun there and my grand daughters love it too.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Healing The Heart Weekend


Hello Everybody,
My wife and I just went to a weekend full of healing. The weekend was about all the hurts you may receive while you were young, we work with a ministry called Living Waters, allot of these hurts are hidden in your heart and you forget about them until later years. God showed us that many of us missed true LOVE from our families, our parents or grand parents. When this type of love is not showed unconditionally it causes us to feel rejected, not wanted, angry, confused and lonely, these are just a few things . We work with couples that come to the retreat looking for answers and God always shows up and there needs are met. Our ministry is not about blaming anyone for the way we feel or pointing fingers at our parents. They may not have received the type of unconditional love God had for them too. It is about understanding the hurts and the way they make us feel,then taking them to the cross and giving them to JESUS. These hurts can and will hinder your walk with God. When we don't receive proper Love as a child how can we believe that a God above can Love us unconditionally. Thats why he tells us in John 3:16 that God so loved the world (that includes us) that he gave his only begotten Son, That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. The key Word here is Love. There were no conditions in what JESUS done for us. He wants us healed so we can show unconditional love also. So basically this is a bit of what happened this weekend, there was so much more and it's hard to tell it all. These weekends take place in the mountains on North Carolina at a place called Apple Hill and it is such a beautiful and Godly place and you can just feel the presents of God there. I will be blogging about some of our teachings soon. God is the Living Waters that turns the wheels in our life.

Rusty

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Spending quality time with all my boys



Hello again,
Well as you can tell I am new at this blogging thing. Maybe I will get the hang of this stuff. As most of know exercising is great for our bodies. The other day my oldest stepson wanted me to go and work out with him. So being the man I am I did it. Wow was I out of shape! Charlie had allot of compassion for me and took it easy on me. Our relationship has really grown these past couple of years and doing things like this really helps. He wants to make sure that I am around for awhile so he is going to whip me into shape. I try to spend as much time with all my boys as i can. Me and my oldest son love to drag race, so we spent allot of time working on our S-!0 drag truck. We are getting to put a new paint job on it. This is allot of fun for us. My youngest son lives a couple of hours away from us so I don't get to see him as much. He has his own Ministry working with drug addicts and homeless people. God really blesses him. Oh yeah my little Jack Russell Terrier was a bad boy today so I made him put his nose in the corner and yes he is my son too.

Friday, March 7, 2008

What it is like to be a step father.

Hello my name is Rusty and I want to share what I have found out about being a stepfather. My wife and I was married 14 yrs. ago. I had two sons from a prior marriage and she had two also. The ages of the boys ranged from(at that time)my boys 16/18 her boys 8/11.I found out very quickly that there was going to be allot of trials. This story I want to tell you about ,was about her oldest son. My wife had been divorced for several years before we met. We dated for a year and I asked her to marry me. Everything seamed fine during the courtship with her and oldest son. But when the BIG DAY came for us to get married her oldest son just stood at the alter and cried. I never really understood what all the tears was all about until later years. As we were all growing up together, I found that her oldest son and I could not form a bond. I never understand why this was happening. I thought it was just the step father thing. To make a long story short, I also teach a class with the ministry I work with. One night as I was teaching, I felt the spirit GOD speaking to me. He ask me to go home and ask (we will call him Charlie) to for give me for marring his mother. At the time I thought this was very confusing. After the class was over I prayed to God to show me what this was all about? Driving back home that night I remembered a young man standing at the alter crying while we were getting married. Then I realized what had happened. The period of time that had passed during my wifes divorce, Charlie had stepped into the role of being the head of the household at the age of 11. He was going to make sure that his mother was going to be taken care of. So when we got married he felt like I was taking his mother away from him and he was losing his position. That was why almost every time we were together I could feel the tension between us but did not know why. He could make me feel angry just by walking into the room. I knew this was not the Godly way to feel about him. So driving home that night I prayed that God would please have him at home(he was now 18 at this point)and I would tell him what God had showed me. Being the doubter (that I am sometime) that I was really hearing from GOD. I ask God to have him at home and his car in the driveway and when I got there I would that care of business. At that point in Charlie's live we never knew what time he would be home at night. Then again being the doubter that I was sometime, I ask God to have Charlie to be at home with his car in the driveway and have him in our bed room setting on the bed talking to his mother, boy that was really asking allot huh. As I drove home and pulled into the drive there set his car, wow, I said sorry God for not trusting you. I walked into our home and down the hall to our bedroom and there set Charlie on the bed talking to his mother, WOW again....Sorry God again... I then asked Charlie to come into the living room with me I needed to talk with him. I began to tell him what God had showed me and asked him to forgive me for marring his mother and that I was not ever trying to come between him and his mother. He understood everything and did admit that he had anger built up inside of him about this for all these years. He forgave me and told me that I was the best thing that had ever happened to him and his younger brother. So listening to the still small voice that comes from God helps me be a better step father.