It seems that about every time that I set out on my computer - to answer a e-mail - I end up writing an ezine article too that the - intended to be brief - message has stimulated.

What I see that develops is information to support what The Lord wants conveyed to one or more of His earthly children. Perhaps, you are one of them?

What follows - is such an article. It was written in response to a e-mail that I received which begged my martial life history. LOL

I once had a wife with whom I went to see a family counselor. A judge had so-ordered counseling because he had awarded me custody of my then

3rd-grade son.

Until then, I didn’t think that the “Great Gal'’ that I had married - four months previous - and I had any problems. To cinch my custody battle suit I had married my 2nd wife after a she-lived-with-me relationship of 4-years. Although I didn’t allow myself to “Really” love her - we married because I wanted my son (I was then 5-years divorced from my 1st wife to whom I had been previously married for 9 years).

I knew that our obvious stability (me owning a new home, 3-art stores ~ her owning an answering service, the publishing company, and she very much “In love” with me) would assure the court mine was the best environment for

my son. LOL. This incident followed my victory in court - the following week.

Anyway, at the end of or 1st session, the Dr. gave us some papers to fill out by which to determine our compatibility - while we were at home that next week. We were told to discuss our real feelings - likes and dislikes goals and aspirations, even our dreams with each other - which we faithfully did.

When we returned the following Wednesday evening for the 2nd session - which turned out to be the last - the good Dr. asked, “Did you two discover anything out about yourselves - and each other - that will affect your marriage?”

I answered him after my

talkative wife had “rattled on” for about 5-minutes: “Yes Dr.” I said. “As a mater-of-fact, I want a divorce.”

Both the medical professional and my 2nd wife were stunned. I was relieved. 24-hours later we had purchased, completed, and submitted (filed-for) a “Do-it-yourself” divorce.

I have been known to make fast, deceive decisions and to take immediate actions when I understand the solutions to - and recognize - the scope of my problems.

The day that my 2nd divorce was final, I met my 3rd wife at a PWP (Parents Without Partners) meeting. It was the 1st PWP function that I’d ever attended. Yes, I can take immediate actions also when I see something that I want.

We ended up

married, I adopted my two daughters, we had a bonus baby 10 years later, I changed careers and professions - God-only-knows - how many times and we spent a total of about 17 years together. I have been a pretty dependable provider most of the time.

It was early in that relationship that I got “Saved” and did a bunch of things that sincere “Baby Christians” do. I had a “Burning Desire” to become a minister. My wife informed me while I was pursuing that avocation - immersed solely in “The Bible” and related study materials for two years - that she did not want to be married to a minister.

The Lord told me that it was alright. That

I could get a job then - so I went back into the world - and found “Respectable” work. We were divorced after my 3rd wife got tired of my refusing to file income tax for about 10-years. LOL. After we were divorced, I caught up my filings. All-in-all, I can say, “That was a pretty good marriage as we both came away from it broke but pleased with the great children that we had been allowed to parent.”

While many of my decisions have not been what would be regarded by conventional Christendom as wise - My Lord knew me. I was rarely - if ever - far from His preplanned script for my “Early’

life.

Yeah, I’ve had to endure some challenges - like some very hard years with MS (Multiple Sclerosis). Yet my faith - that I would be healed or would one day be “Cured” of that dread “Incurable” disease - never wavered. And so I have been. I accepted my successful health restoration operation in mid-May of 2006. LOL Jesus had already paid-in-full for the procedure over 2,000 years ago.

You know that Jacob walked with a limp after wrestling with God. Perhaps, you will understand the parallels that I perceive - to my own life experiences - in this part of Jacobs story?

‘(CEV) Genesis 32:1 As Jacob was on his way back home, some of God’s angels came and

met him. 2 When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is God’s camp.” So he named the place Mahanaim. 3 Jacob sent messengers on ahead to Esau, who lived in the land of Seir, also known as Edom. 4 Jacob told them to say to Esau, “Master, I am your servant! I have lived with Laban all this time, 5 and now I own cattle, donkeys, and sheep, as well as many slaves. Master, I am sending these messengers in the hope that you will be kind to me.” 6 When the messengers returned, they told Jacob, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is heading this way with four hundred men.” 7 Jacob was so frightened that he divided his people, sheep, cattle, and camels into two groups. 8 He thought, “If Esau attacks one group, perhaps the other can escape.” 9 Then Jacob prayed: You, LORD, are the God who was worshiped by my grandfather Abraham and by my father Isaac. You told me to return home to my family, and you promised to be with me and make me successful.

10 I don’t deserve all the good things you have done for me, your servant. When I first crossed the Jordan, I had only my walking stick, but now I have two large groups of people and animals.

11 Please rescue me from my brother. I am afraid he will come and attack not only me, but my wives and children as well. 12 But you have promised that I would be a success and that someday it will be as hard to count my descendants as it is to count the stars in the sky. 13 After Jacob had spent the night there, he chose some animals as gifts for Esau: 14 15 two hundred female goats and twenty males, two hundred female sheep and twenty males, thirty female camels with their young, forty cows and ten bulls, and twenty female donkeys and ten males. 16 Jacob put servants in charge of each herd and told them, “Go ahead of me and keep a space between each herd.” 17 Then he said to the servant in charge of the first herd, “When Esau meets you, he will ask whose servant you are. He will want to know where you are going and who owns those animals in front of you. 18 So tell him, “They belong to your servant Jacob, who is coming this way. He is sending them as a gift to his master Esau.’ ” 19 Jacob also told the men in charge of the second and third herds and those who followed to say the same thing when they met Esau. 20 And Jacob told them to be sure to say that he was right behind them. Jacob hoped the gifts would make Esau friendly, so Esau would be glad to see him when they met. 21 Jacob’s men took the gifts on ahead of him, but he spent the night in camp.

22 23 Jacob got up in the middle of the night and took his wives, his eleven children, and everything he owned across to the other side of the Jabbok River for safety. 24 Afterwards, Jacob went back and spent the rest of the night alone. A man came and fought with Jacob until just before daybreak. 25 When the

man saw that he could not win, he struck Jacob on the hip and threw it out of joint. 26 They kept on wrestling until the man said, “Let go of me! It’s almost daylight.” “You can’t go until you bless me,” Jacob replied. 27 Then the man asked, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered. 28 The man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob. You have wrestled with God and with men, and you have won. That’s why your name will be Israel.” 29 Jacob said, “Now tell me your name.” “Don’t you know who I am?” he asked. And he blessed Jacob. 30 Jacob said, “I have seen God face to face, and I am still alive.” So he named the place Peniel. 31 The sun was coming up as Jacob was leaving Peniel. He was limping because he had been struck on the hip, 32 and the muscle on his hip joint had been injured. That’s why even today the people of Israel don’t eat the hip muscle of any animal.’

The Lord gave me my name, Rascal, before creation. Yet he did not reveal it to me until shortly before He healed me of MS. I had wrestled against God, man, and women throughout all of my early life. While achieving some excellent - by the world’s standards - success,

owned retail stores, wholesale businesses, worked for (during that year) the # 1 employee rated company in the United States, published both poetry books and a novel, held professional insurance and real estate licenses, and even owned my own real estate company - I never was fully satisfied - until recently - in my career life or business endeavors.

Now, I AM! The Lord has fulfilled my deepest desire as He Had promised. ‘(NASB) Psalms 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart.’

“You became a Minster?” You might ask.

Well, sort of. The Lord called me to be An Apostle, “His playfully mischievous Apostle, Rascal”. My flock is mainly scattered -

having been widely dispersed by Him. Some are very able to follow their Master. Like His more wayward sheep, often they graze daily on the special grains that He scatters by various ministries and loving family members, or on-line friends. Yet He has called me to feed some of His flock through Inspired ezine articles and utilization of cyber-space vessels.

With the Internet - that He created for this purpose - I have freedom to proclaim His messages at anytime that I feel led too. It is now 3:51 A.M. and I’m having a great time with My Lord and Master Shepherd. LOL Whatever the time is that you are reading this, He is having a great time

with you - right now. Praise The Lord!

I will quote here The Good Shepherd - as to what He has said of His people and mine - to those of you cyber-space-cadets with ears to hear what He and I say:

37 Everything and everyone that the Father has given me will come to me, and I won’t turn any of them away. 38 I didn’t come from heaven to do what I want! I came to do what the Father wants me to do. He sent me, 39 and he wants to make certain that none of the ones he has given me will be lost.

Yes, The Lord talks with you too. Isn’t

it curious that none of those close ones - those who should know you best - really understand?

My marital needs are yet to be fulfilled. Perhaps, this is why - in part - I’ve been instructed to publish this article into the Romance section? So that The Lord’s lady - that He’s prepared for me - will see this and initiate contact. LOL She’ll likely hunt me down via one of my websites like Jesus4You.ws or one of my others.

I’m open to receive prepaid tickets for an all expense paid vacation with her. I’ll likely bring my wheelchair or handicapped scooter because the walking aspect of such an encounter would distract us both from the full enjoyment of

each others company - during the would-otherwise-have-to-walk elements of our get to know each other our romantic encounter.

This Lord’s Lady needs to be aware that I also wear hearing aids - having been born a “Deafie” with a 70 % hearing deficiency in both ears. Yeah, the amplification really works for me - everywhere except on a telephone. One wishing to speak to me personally must do so via telephony such as is available at no charge through Yahoo or Skype - allowing me to hear pretty well through my headset that has speakers which encompass both of my ears.

Hey - if she can swing it - I love cruise ships and I haven’t been aboard one for

probably 10-years. Since we would be totally isolated - and I don’t have a laptop or talk on telephones - we could really get to know each other without any distractions. Just a thought.

Well, I should close this with some scriptures. Ones that are applicable to my original mission of answering honestly a lovely lady s e-mail which in effect asked for personal details about my martial background. How are these?

‘(NASB) Psalms 51:6 Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being, And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.’

‘(NASB) Psalms 103:5 Who satisfies your years with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.

Hey - I like that one

She will too. As I figure that our marriage should hold together for another 60-years or so - unless Our Master comes for us sooner - we can look forward to the “Good things” and having our “Youth renewed.”

I understand that by the time that she has gotten old an eagle looks pretty rough. Her beak has become chipped and gnarly. Her once shiny feathers - now tattered - are in a state of severe disrepair. She has an option to die. Or, some survivors are favored to go to a high, secluded place, pluck out old quills one-at-a-time and there she smashes her old beak to pieces against the rocks.

Well - wouldn’t you know it -

when she sprouts new feathers - they glisten. And when her new beak grows back - it is smooth, free of cracks and wrinkles. She has all of the wisdom that her hard early years has provided her and by then has learned to be easier on herself. Sounds like a pretty good promise to me. LOL

I would consider, “How to be honestly open about God with marriage-minded Internet inquirers is a worthy, -possibly liberating - challenge
(NASB) John 8:32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Rascal Russ Miles is an Apostle. Called by The Lord, as was the Apostle Paul, Rascal is in the same apostolic calling order as was his

brother, Paul the Apostle. Rascal is The Lord’s playfully mischievous apostle. Rascal’s calling includes the assignment to “Shout from the rooftops the Lord’s inspired messages vie ezine articles.”

Under his pseudonym, Russ Miles, Rascal’s credits include publishing the mystery novel, For Sale By Owners:FSBO. Order toll free 1-800-AUTHORS or through Amazon.com

A “Seasoned Real Estate NAR Broker,” Rascal Russ was ~for 5 hard years~ increasingly disabled by “Incurable” Multiple Sclerosis. Now “Cured”, Rascal writes books & articles on varied subjects. Comments: Rascal.Miles@Gmail.com.

Via his personal Rascal’s website, [http://www.MilesBooks.com]www.MilesBooks.com, “Rascal’s Blog”, & his ezine articles themselves, Rascal maintains personal contact with those that e-mail him, and those whom he believes the God of this Universe has joined together with him per

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