BASIC Action Ohana Group

Hey everyone, as you all know last year february i embarked on a most excellent adventure. Over the past few years since I became a member at KCC, I grew a concience and met up with the love of my life through my space. I had some legal problems that was 17 years old and thought that it was time to resolve them. So I moved to washington state to be with my love and to take care of those problems. both of them I had no idea how they would turn out, but took the chance anyway. the court ended up sentencing me to 40 hours of community service and terminated any probation I was on.which was heaven sent for real, I was looking at spending two years in jail.phew. After that was takin care of my soon to be wifes family moved to tennessee.Thats right tennessee. so of course we followed them, but not until last month.what a trip we drove from washington through Oregon, california, arizona, new mexico, texas, oaklahoma, arkansa and finally tennessee. where I was an instant father to a 16 year old boy. During the drive I was able to see GODS beautiful country. all the different landscapes was just breathtaking.so now im on a whole different journey having to deal with Rebekahs son.. so far so good. Only through the grace of GOD am I able to deal with these new situations in my life and if it wasnt for my church family there at KCC was I able to do all that.thank you all for the support and love and hopefully you all will be able to meet my new family soon.

So the story goes like this… there is a blog post from one of Ohana loved one, Richard,and it gets posted, automatically, to my Facebook account. So, more for clarification than anything else; I’m not getting married.

I love the stories of our Ohana, and this is a great place to tell some of it. I have had debates with some about whether Facebook can be a real community, and I suppose this can also fall under that debate as well. But isn’t there something within us that screams out with wonder over whether our lives are part of a bigger story or not, that there is a purpose for what we do as well as what has been done to us. I think so, and to hear real stories from others just may give us glimpses to the answer.

What do you all think?

wow another easter gone by. spent my easter with my very soon to be my wife and her family here in tennessee. we went to a very traditional methodist church where we werent welcomed with opened arms but I still held my head up hi and was on my best behavior. The service was a nice change and after the people in the church realized we were with Rebekahs mom they warmed up to us. the greeter didnt even try to hand me a program I had to take one any way I didnt let that discourage me and plan on exploring different churches , however ther are really only two denominations here methodist and baptist. But we will continue our search

Happy Easter!

For me, Easter has been a time to fearfully experience a giant fuzzy scary bunny rabbit. At other times, it’s finding colored eggs and eating pastel wrapped chocolate covered peanut butter candies. And yet still other times, I have sat in semi comfortable chairs in a semi air conditioned room listenting to someone tell me about Easter, semi conciously.

Well, today is going to be different. I’m not sure what Easter I will see, but I will enter today with the knowledge that Easter, whatever else it may be, is about hope. And for today, experiencing this is more than enough for me.

What is Easter to you?