I’ve been in pain all my life! I know what mental and physical pain is! From the time I was born until this very day, I’ve known pain! I spent the first two years of my life going in and out of St. John’s Hospital in Joplin Missouri (the old hospital before the Joplin Tornado destroyed it)! I actually had major surgery at eighteen months old and almost died of pneumonia days afterwards! At two years old it was nephritis and I almost died from it! Then, at age four, the horrible mental and physical abuse from my alcoholic father began! It lasted for the next ten years; the slapping, hitting, cursing, beatings and kickings! Then, sports, mainly football; the physical abuse to the body! Then, the street fights, gang fights, boxing, martial arts, stabbings, broken nose, cracked ribs, fractured jaw! Then, eight car wrecks and four motorcycle wrecks; broken neck, broken lower back, fractured right knee, fractured elbows, torn muscles, ligaments and tendons of both shoulders! Then, six major surgeries! It seems the list is endless! Pain? I’ve known pain! I know pain! As I sit writing this, the pain in my lower back and the rest of my body is beyond description! I have to walk, stretch, pray and take pain meds in order to survive! Life hasn’t been easy for me, but Jesus has helped me make it this far and He will help me until I go home…