working for above08:11 Feb 17 2008
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well, many years ago in my early 20's, i was married way too young as most are now days, anyways, we had some rough times which i will go into at another time, but we decided to go to church and try and save our marriage. We started out just going on sundays and then i started going almost nitely just to get away from the wife, yes it was that bad, lol, well, we would go out during the week door to door and just talking to folks and listeneing to there troubles and try and get them to join us sunday in church. Well this went on for a year or so, and one day the guy i dorr knocked with was sick and normally we took that as a day off. But i didnt want to go home so against there wishes i went out by myself. I picked a poor neighborhood, which we didnt do regularly, and i went door to door talking to everyone and had a pretty good night over all. There was this one old crappy house right where i parked my car that didnt answer the door, so i went on to the rest tile the end of the night. When i went back to my car there was a light on in the front of the house so this time i decided to knock
So i went up on the front porch and stood there for awhile cause this place was rough and i was kinda worried who would come to the door. Well i finally got the courage up and knocked, nobody came so i knocked again, this time i heard a voice yell out just a minute, so i waited. Then the same voice yelled come on in, so i did, when i did there was a young guy in his 20's, pretty rough looking and he looked bumfucked to say the least. So i sat with him and talked to him and he listened well but didnt say too much, he just looked so surprised or something. I asked him to meet me a church on sunday and he jumped right on that so off i went til sunday.
Well, when sunday came i always waited at the front door to meet folks that showed up and he did, i introduced him to the minister and they talked awhile and then he came and sat with me and my wife.
The minister gave a great speech and at the end he started talking about my guy whicj kinda surprised me and he even asked him to come up front and introduced him and asked him to tell his story which i never even heard.
He got up there and talked bout losing his wife, she took there kid and he didnt even know where they were and he lost his job, and all was just going to heck, then he came to the night i was door knocking, he said he was so upset that he sat on his recliner, shoved a shotgun under his chin and cocked it and had his finger on the trigger, he said he was just ready to pull the trigger and end it and he said he looked up at the ceiling and yelled at God to give him a sign that he didnt want him to kill himself and was crying and just ready to pull the trigger and I knocked on the door at that exact instance.
wow, what a night huh, I never went back to church or door knocked since
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