So what in the world am I talking about?
What is all this about?
Why a new blog?
As many of my followers know. I have been without work for some time now. Most of you also know I am a Christian. So here's the story of how I got here.
Over 20 years ago now my first wife died. She had been very sick for some time. I was in the military when she became ill and while the military paid her medical expenses they did not cover home aid when I was away. This put a strain on us financially. There was not a month that we didn't struggle. I met another soldier with similar problems and I asked him how he was able to make ends meet. He explained to me that he was into RE (real estate) on the side. He told me that he had surpassed everything that the military was paying him monthly by a great deal simply by working RE on the weekends. At first I thoght it was a lie. I told myself that he was selling drugs or something. Then he invited me to come with him one weekend. I was hooked. He purchased a property over the next 2 weeks, made $4k and never spent a dime of his own money in the process. He did it by contracts and assignments. Over the next 2 months he showed me the basics and a month later I made my first deal. It flopped. But he came in and pointed out my mistake and I learned every year after that too do it better. We were making it, the bills were no problem and our savings was nice. The only problem was my wife was still sick. Out of the military and only gone now and again for RE deals I was home more and needed less in home care. My wife wanted to go back home to Indiana. We then moved back. We lived on our savings for awhile and then before I got back to doing RE she got much worse. I was struggling with the burdon and did not feel I could leave her to work on building a new RE business. I was beginning to stress like before and took to drinking. When she was asleep I was in the bottle. Then she died. For a very long time I never came out of the bottle. A few years had passed and I had met my next wife although I didn't know it at the time. I was still in the bottle a lot. She wanted to go to church. I did not believe at first but eventually Jesus came into my life. I quit drinking and started studying the Bible. The church we attended really without saying it, led me to the conclusion that the accumulation of wealth was not desirable. That coupled with various verses then taken out of context by me and those that were teaching me at the time kept me away from RE. I had taken a job and decided that RE would not be the course of action for me. I saw what wealth had done to some of the people in our church and wanted no part of becoming like that. I told myself you dont want to go back to that. I said without basis (just on the words and teaching of others) that excessive income was bad and would corrupt me. I have always enjoyed somewhat of a pioneer's life so I have been ok with life like that. Now I have been married for many years to my second wife and studied much in the Bible but I had never went and studied what it really said about wealth. In my mind I was hearing ITS CONDEMNED. Having been without work for awhile, my second wife is sick as well now and all former savings have long since been depleted. I started asking God to show me how I can get the bills paid and work the jobs that are being offered to me. He said you can't. I asked then what am I to do.
(Note that God has been faithfully taking care of the bills but I want to supply for my wife as her husband).
God said you need to look at what I say about riches and wealth. Maybe this is something that everybody else knows and I didn't but the Bible is clear that riches and wealth are not the same. I had always assumed that they were. After studying what God says in the Bible about riches and wealth I realize I was wrong. The Bible does not condemn wealth or riches it asks us to redefine them Biblically in both accumulation and use. I will soon be blogging those scriptures on my other blog rbhb.blogspot.com. That will go into detail about my new belief on the subject of wealth and riches.
That's how I got here and I will be taking actionable steps to aquire more wealth so that we will be able to give more abundantly thus storing up riches in heaven. As strange as this sounds I feel I must do this to serve better because God gave me the knowledge to do it. I will be working a normal job until this builds enough passive income to pay bills and give as much as possible. This is not about being first in this world, ironically its about being last. This will be the journal of the journey. We're in for a long ride. Indiana law is weird and doesn't make this easy. However it is doable.
To all those who have not received where they may have had I not been wrong, I beg forgiveness.
I hope this rambling made since.
To God be the glory.
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