As I near my 50th birthday, Saturday, Auguat 19, I have taken time to review all of the changes I have seen in the past half century. I was raised in communist Wisconsin with judeo-christian beliefs and credited the advancements of man to evolution as I was taught. I remember our first microwave, our first VCR, and when I was a teen my parents had the forerunner to cable called Select TV which was 16 channels with less advertising as opposed to the 4 local channels.

As a child I was taught that since I was intelligent I did not have to worry about menial physical labor. With my intelligence I was encouraged to pursue upper management so I could just tell others what to do. Unknown to me at the time, the Lord had other plans for me. In my rebellion against the establishment (although I didn’t know what that was), I was in a severe car accident 2 days after turning 19, that changed my life.   Continue reading “Letter to the Trenchers”