What Has God Taught Me from Failure
These are the failures that I wish to record in my life:
A. Failure to make E-5 in the Navy
B. Failure to make a success of my first marriage
C. Failure to quite smoking earlier in life.
D. Failure to promote God in my Family.
In addressing A above, had I made the rank I searched for, I probable would have stayed in the Navy. Perhaps God’s plan was for me to go into the Army so that I could meet my future wife. Thank you God!
In addressing B above, we married in haste and it was more lust than love. Although we were married six years, we only had a life together for two of those years – and I was in the DMZ in Korea during one of those years, so could only go “home” on weekends. We had less than two years together as man and wife. When we finally did get together again in 1971, we were strangers so we divorced. It probably was God’s way of preparing me for my second and current wife. Thank you God!
In addressing C above, the thirty-three years I smoked, ruined my health badly. I’m paying for that indiscretion today but it has led me to take an active interest in proper exercising of my body (swimming 6 out of 7 days). This has helped me to live longer so that I can devote more time to God’s plan for me. Thank you God!
In addressing D above, late in my life and during a near fatal illness, I learned that there was a group of people in my wife’s church who were praying for my recovery from a heart attack (I had two of them) and my wife was also praying on a daily basis. Not only that, but the pastors and congregants of that church came to visit with me in the hospital to cheer me and to pray over me often. I believe those prayers and the prayers of complete strangers, helped in my recovery – God answered those prayers. Thank you God!
In 2005, my wife, daughter and granddaughter were all baptized into the Korean/American Methodist Church. I was baptized long ago into the Catholic religion but sadly, never followed my religion carefully. I’m now a good Methodist.church goer and trying hard to learn to walk in the path of Christ. With constant prayer, reading the bible and learning about the scriptures, I can be a better man, husband and father/grandfather. I’ll try to be a good Christian.
John E. Hunt
Monday, July 30, 2007
What Has God Taught Me from Failure
What Has God Taught Me from Failure
These are the failures that I wish to record in my life:
A. Failure to make E-5 in the Navy
B. Failure to make a success of my first marriage
C. Failure to quite smoking earlier in life.
D. Failure to promote God in my Family.
In addressing A above, had I made the rank I searched for, I probable would have stayed in the Navy. Perhaps God’s plan was for me to go into the Army so that I could meet my future wife. Thank you God!
In addressing B above, we married in haste and it was more lust than love. Although we were married six years, we only had a life together for two of those years – and I was in the DMZ in Korea during one of those years, so could only go “home” on weekends. We had less than two years together as man and wife. When we finally did get together again in 1971, we were strangers so we divorced. It probably was God’s way of preparing me for my second and current wife. Thank you God!
In addressing C above, the thirty-three years I smoked, ruined my health badly. I’m paying for that indiscretion today but it has led me to take an active interest in proper exercising of my body (swimming 6 out of 7 days). This has helped me to live longer so that I can devote more time to God’s plan for me. Thank you God!
In addressing D above, late in my life and during a near fatal illness, I learned that there was a group of people in my wife’s church who were praying for my recovery from a heart attack (I had two of them) and my wife was also praying on a daily basis. Not only that, but the pastors and congregants of that church came to visit with me in the hospital to cheer me and to pray over me often. I believe those prayers and the prayers of complete strangers, helped in my recovery – God answered those prayers. Thank you God!
In 2005, my wife, daughter and granddaughter were all baptized into the Korean/American Methodist Church. I was baptized long ago into the Catholic religion but sadly, never followed my religion carefully. I’m now a good Methodist.church goer and trying hard to learn to walk in the path of Christ. With constant prayer, reading the bible and learning about the scriptures, I can be a better man, husband and father/grandfather. I’ll try to be a good Christian.
John E. Hunt
These are the failures that I wish to record in my life:
A. Failure to make E-5 in the Navy
B. Failure to make a success of my first marriage
C. Failure to quite smoking earlier in life.
D. Failure to promote God in my Family.
In addressing A above, had I made the rank I searched for, I probable would have stayed in the Navy. Perhaps God’s plan was for me to go into the Army so that I could meet my future wife. Thank you God!
In addressing B above, we married in haste and it was more lust than love. Although we were married six years, we only had a life together for two of those years – and I was in the DMZ in Korea during one of those years, so could only go “home” on weekends. We had less than two years together as man and wife. When we finally did get together again in 1971, we were strangers so we divorced. It probably was God’s way of preparing me for my second and current wife. Thank you God!
In addressing C above, the thirty-three years I smoked, ruined my health badly. I’m paying for that indiscretion today but it has led me to take an active interest in proper exercising of my body (swimming 6 out of 7 days). This has helped me to live longer so that I can devote more time to God’s plan for me. Thank you God!
In addressing D above, late in my life and during a near fatal illness, I learned that there was a group of people in my wife’s church who were praying for my recovery from a heart attack (I had two of them) and my wife was also praying on a daily basis. Not only that, but the pastors and congregants of that church came to visit with me in the hospital to cheer me and to pray over me often. I believe those prayers and the prayers of complete strangers, helped in my recovery – God answered those prayers. Thank you God!
In 2005, my wife, daughter and granddaughter were all baptized into the Korean/American Methodist Church. I was baptized long ago into the Catholic religion but sadly, never followed my religion carefully. I’m now a good Methodist.church goer and trying hard to learn to walk in the path of Christ. With constant prayer, reading the bible and learning about the scriptures, I can be a better man, husband and father/grandfather. I’ll try to be a good Christian.
John E. Hunt
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