People that know me know I`m not an overly religious person. I pretty much avoided religion for most of my life and never gave it much thought. Well, recent events (and by recent I mean the past few years) have taken a toll on my world. I had lost track of who I was.I had forgotten how to be "me", how to have peace, and simply how to have fun! I had grown old and stuffy, and kept looking for outside things to make me feel the way I knew I should. The key was literally right in front of me the whole time. The answer was in ME. I came to a point where I realized that I was not in a place I wanted to be, and was selling both myself and my family short by not being true to myself. I was making decent money, but I was never home. I was always stressed out and pissed off about something, and just an uptight, stressed out old fart at the ripe old age of 32! I knew something needed to change.



I was turned on to a book, and once I started reading it, something clicked. I had fallen behind, and lost that unyielding strenght and self confidence I held as a kid. I discovered that by putting my faith in God, my faith in myself would be restored as well. Things started getting better almost immediately. I started feeling better within 24 hours, and the events that had me so uptight started to  solve themselves over the next few weeks.



I don`t want to stand here and preach to you. When it`s your time, you`ll know. But I am compelled to tell anyone who will listen that Faith in God has broughth me from a place I didn`t want to be to somewhere I thought was just a distant memory. We are all unique, and I was an unconventional kid, therefore I had success in unconventional things and ways. I was happy, and held an unfettered self confidence. That feeling was gone for a long time, but I am realizing that every day my relationship with God grows, so does my inner strength. I am remembering what it`s like to have absolutely no doubt in my abilities, and the confidence to attack any task with everything I have.



2007 will be a remarkable year for JeffB. I can feel it. The people that have believed in me so far will have even more return on their investment. I thank God, my family, and my friends. Good luck to everyone out there in everything you do, and just remember the difference faith made in my life. It can do the same for you, should you ever need it.