A friend once told me, "It's tough getting old... I don't recommend it."
Well, I've been feeling old lately. Neck problems, pain in one of my wrists, and now a knee injury.
I've been having increased pain and issues over the years from an old neck injury, that now has resulted over time in two degenerative discs in the base of my neck. Chiropractic, physical therapy, pain injections, medications, none have remedied the problems. So now I am facing surgery.
Then I recently damaged my knee, while climbing stairs in our home. The resultant MRI shows not one, but two tears in my meniscus in my right knee. Now, two surgeries. Problems come in pairs...
I'm praying for healing, but I also know healing can come through the gift of modern medicine. I hope to get healthy again after these, to be about my active lifestyle again.
This has been a pain in the neck...and the knee...

In this "land of Midian" I've been in since leaving Hebron, God has given me a few opportunities to preach and teach, I've done a lot of writing (new blog, Twitter, etc.), but what seems to be generating the most income is buying/selling. Even last fall, I bought the Kawasaki ZR-7s, only to trade it with a guy for two bikes, the Triumph Sprint and the Kawasaki Vulcan. God was already positioning me to do this, before I ever knew I would be in the stage of life I find myself in. After getting the Vulcan running, I sold it within 3 days for a good profit. I needed to buy a smaller, newer, lower-mileage truck, and Lisa found one, a Ford Ranger, down in Snellville. I got it for a great price, with the money I made off the Vulcan. I then fixed up (with my father's help) my old Chevy 1500, and sold it for a profit, to friend in town.
Now, another friend has had this little 1983 Honda CX650 for many years, but since buying a much newer bike, has not had the time to fix the old one back up. He gave it to me to see if I thought it would be worth fixing, and if it is, I'll settle up with him then. Its a rather uncommon motorcycle, one Honda didn't make many of, and didn't make it for many years. I hope to massage it back to life, and turn it for a little extra cash as well. We'll see...
God is providing, day by day, as I seek and depend on Him.
"Give us this day our daily bread..." He certainly has with me, served up with a helping of motorcycles and pickup trucks!