I believe we are all born with a set of gifts. However, many of us don’t open them. It’s what we do with our gifts that helps define us.
Unfortunately, the message that most of us are taught, from the time we are young, is that we can only do so much. We need to expand our thinking. My thought has always been that if someone has done it before me, then I could too. Even things that no one has ever done, I did.
From a young age, I have always felt that the church that I needed to go to was outside, in nature. When something on this plane unsettles me, spending time outside has always grounded me. When I was young, I spent hours and days at a nature center in my neighborhood. Now, I spend my time with Carrie and my cattle on our farm in Tennessee.
I’m a blue-collar man and I’ve worked with my hands all my life. My work experience has been diverse: welder, retail manager, landscape designer and installer, kitchen remodeler, house flipper, coach, firefighter, licensed plumber, and now, cattle rancher. The only time I paused in life was when I had seven of my organs replaced. And the best thing I’ve learned about gut feelings is that I still have them, even though mine were replaced. I have always listened to my gut feelings because I knew they represented the Divine speaking to me, and I simply trusted that they were right. I am a spiritual man, and having faith in my connectedness to the Divine and to Spirit beyond this physical body, is what has always sustained me … even through dying, twice.