johnpeterfurst
johnpeterfurst
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So...Two things you should know about me right off the bat: I'm a born-again Christian, and forevermore will I be happier than most people in this world.
I gave my life to Jesus Christ October 11th, 2009. Before then, my life was filled with drugs, booze, pornography, arrogance, anger, opinions, and a general sense of fear.
I was an aspiring actor, an aspiring fiction writer, an aspiring musician...an aspiring person. I thought that if I could live my life making just enough income, having just enough intimacy with a girl, and being intoxicated just enough to not kill myself, I would be able to survive and maybe even thrive a little in this depressing world.
But then, my life changed in the most miraculous of ways. Though I'd been raised in the Christian faith, I never personally knew the God Who loves me more than anything and wants the best for my life. When I finally heard the Gospel of the God of Love, Jesus Christ, and how He would make me live a life of holiness and joy through Him (something I never thought I could get on my own), I was drawn to hear more. I was told that my life would be the best it could be with Christ, and that to gain this beautiful-sounding reality with Him, I must give my current life to Him completely.
So I chose Him and did so!
And I declare to you all that, on the day I gave my life to Him, Jesus touched me and showed me His reality! All of my doubts disappeared like smoke in the wind!
Just like John Newton wrote when he penned the song 'Amazing Grace':
"I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see." My life has become the very definition of these lyrics!
And so, in a brief manner, that's who I am and how I live the life I now have! And, my Dear Friends, for the rest of my days, things will never be the same! Each day will only get better with Christ my savior as my guide!
Aside from Christ being the center of everything to me, and aside from writing, I'm also a fan of thunderstorms, natural bodies of water, (good) coffee and tea, ice cream, Scotland and Ireland (the Land o' Eire be the strum to me heartstrings, an' Heav'n be me home), music (almost every genre except for Polka and Death Metal/Screamo Rock), candles, singing, and playing music on the guitar, cornet, and conga drums. I'm also a HUGE lover of fantasy and fiction (I have no allegiance to a particular novel or movie; I just love most of 'em in general. But no, I don't go to comic-cons). I am not married yet and have no children, but the Lord's got a timing for that. I love my family, I love my friends, and I long to live life to the fullest extent the way God intended me to.
-John Peter
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