Step Generation

Basically The Enemy We Face In Our Country Today Is Not An Enemy Attackingfrom The Outside Of Our Border But An Enemy Embedded Within. Freedom Cannotthrive If The Family Unit Does Not Survive. Without An Understanding Of Noblesacrifice Serving Others Or Divine Accountability We Are Doomed. The Time Iscritical. We Need Men To Step Up To The Plate Of Leadership We Need Women Tocome Alongside And We Need Abandonment To Be Abandoned.As Mentioned On The Backside Of This Book I Am A Product Of This Looselifestyle Myself And As I Matured Into A Young Adult I Just Fell Into My Placeof Hurting And Misleading Others Too. This May Be A Similar Lifestyle Thatyou Are In Or Came From. I Did Not Truly Understand The Destruction That Iwas Distributing Until I Looked At The Wake I Was Leaving Behind Me In Thislifestyle. So Where Did My Personal Change Come From In My Life? First Of AllMy Personal Change Wasn’T As Easy As A Oil Change At Walmart. No It Was Morelike An Engine Overhaul By Nascar. Disassembly Of Thoughts And Lifestyle Ispart Of Of The Process. Reassembly With Perseverance Grace And Love Is Mustin Order To Foster A Changed Life. Between The Self Help Books Shots Of TequilaA.C.A. Meetings A Couple Sixpacks Some Acid Trips Divorce Counciling Andlosing My Car A Couple Times Plus A Dozen Or So Girlfriends I Finally Opened Abook My Grandmother Had Given Me. This Book Introduced Me To Jesus. Nowplease Don’T Drop This Book And Run. I’M Not Here To Convert Or Preach Buti Wouldn’T Be Honest If I Didn’T Mention The Bible And Jesus. Through Bothi’Ve Learned The Ability To Love Others As I Would Have Liked To Be Loved As Achild Sacrificial Unadulterated And Kind—Love That Leads To The Building Upof Others Not Only To Build My Family Directly But Mankind As A Whole. Peopleobviously Learn How To Love By The Example Given Them By Their Parents. Themodel Lived Out Before Them Is The Foundation Of Which They’Ll Build Their Lives On. Women Won’T Reach Their Full Potential As An Adult Until They Have Made Thedecisions Required Of A Mother And Boys Won’T Grow Up And Become Men Untilthey Are Challenged To Serve Their Own Family And Not Themselves.Even If You Don’T Believe In The Bible As An Inspired Word Of God Jesustaught Us To Be Accountable To Something Bigger Than Ourselves And To Loveour Neighbor As Ourselves. If We Could Just Put Those Two Things Into Action“First” In Our Lives Then Our Families’ Lives. Our Communities Would Thriveand Not Have To Get Into Welfare Lines Abortion Lines Or Battle Lines . . .This Book And Workbook To Follow Are Designed To Give You The Reader Abetter Perspective Of How Challenging The Step Life Can Be. Whether You’Re Theparent Or The Stepparent The Challenges And Frustrations Will Be Unique To Yourmarriage. Sometimes You May Feel Like You’Re Shipwrecked On An Island All Alonein The Ocean Of Life Because When You Speak To Friends Or Family They Don’T Havean Ex To Deal With. They Don’T Have Children To Deal With Children That Aren’Tbiologically Theirs. They Don’T Have The Feelings Of Frustration When The Otherparents Rules Are Mentioned In Defiance Or That Parent Does Something That Youdisagree With And You Have No Control To Change Their Influence. Anyway Thesethings And More Will Be Dealt In Later Chapters So Read On Soldiers.