The way we act determines how we feel.  This is the truth because how we really feel determines how we are going to act in society itself.  I really didn’t know that our personal feelings are like a magnet clinging to anything that is attached to it.  Pastor Rick Warren quotes this information as a means to survival.  I really think that our feelings are like anything that a magnet is attached to.  I still think that I am a Work in Progress.  This is based on my actions from the past.  I have been living here in Dayton, Ohio for 14 years now.  I have been living in my apartment for 13 years now.  There has been a lot of changes during the past 14 years now.  I have to take care of myself better than usual.

Next, I have been feeling guilty and sluggish as of late.  Allow me to be honest and truthful with everyone right now.  I really appreciate what God has done for me in my life.  I appreciate His Breath of Life.  I am grateful for being clean and sober for 33 years now.  I am taking it on a daily basis one step at a time.  Lord Jesus, I want to thank you for allowing me to live and see another year.  

Further, I am very happy to see that you are holding my right hand right now.  I am honest in saying that You are My God, Savior, and Friend.  I literally can’t live without you.  I have been reading my Bible as of late.  I tend to read out loud.  My actions from the past 14 years now determines who I am personally.  I have not used a vulgar statement in a long time now.  Using vulgarity only makes you feel dirty and your deeds will always be questioned by God and Man Himself.  Sometimes the way I communicate is a reflection of my childhood and throughout my adult life.  It is not very easy growing up in a dysfunctional family.  People have mental and physical scars that do not heal.

Moreover, I want to inform all of you that I have been saved by the Blood of the Lamb and baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.  I got baptized on Sunday February 15, 2015.  I was baptized by Pastor Jon Morgan at Fort McKinley United Methodist Church in Dayton, Ohio.  My new Pastor name is Karl Penn.  He has been Pastor for going on 5 years now.  I am only a vapor that only lasts for a while and it eventually vanishes away.
I want to say that I have come a very long way in my Christian Walk.  I have a tendency to meditate for an extended period of time.  Some people will say if you study long, you are studying wrong.  I have learned a valuable lesson in life.  When it comes to human behavior it is learned and taught to other people.  Mom told me to my face that I am a leader instead of a follower.  Mom made a mistake in judgement by changing my name back in 1972.  I had to change my own name back to Hopkins instead of Russell.  God is Real!!  God is watching over me and everyone else.  I literally love you Lord Jesus for being my God and Friend.  Your Body is the Temple of the Living God.