My Story

I know its not been long since my last post, but I have some free time while I sit in my living room rocking my baby in his rock n play sleeper. Anywhoo, here is my story.

I am 30 years old, male of course, and a father of 1 son so far. I have a beautiful wife who is 25 years old and a stay at home mom. Our son is 19 days old. I am planning to return to school in the Fall to pursue my business administration degree, though we are still praying for God's guidance and direction for my life.

Here is the story of my life:

I was born in a medium sized town in Tennessee. I had a great childhood with both a mom and dad in my life, and they are still married 37 years now. I also have one older brother that is now a police officer. As a young child I attended a church that was very "traditional". We attended services regularly until I was about 7-8 years old, but my mom made the "mistake" of letting us go to church in only dress pants, a dress shirt and tie..... we were asked to leave the service since we were not wearing a full suit. It's hard sometimes to keep growing boys clothed in properly fitting suits, in addition to the fact that God wants dedicated followers whether they are homeless and wearing rags or upper class people wearing designer clothes. He cares about the heart and soul, not about the clothes. Needless to say that was a major shock and we were all reluctant to become involved in church for some time. After several years we became involved in the local recreational athletic leagues and my mom had became one of the leaders of the local ballpark. We stayed fairly busy with activities there for several years, with my mom working on the commission and my brother and I working on field maintenance and doing grounds work. My brother and I didn't work there until our teen years, and before then we would run and play just like kids do. We played baseball, but not everyone had gloves and equipment so we played "cupball", it was just like baseball.... well wiffle ball actually.... small field, a wadded up paper cup, and a open palm for a bat. I spent lots of time there due to being homeschooled through middle school, and made many lifelong friends. Once I reached high school age, at 12 years old, I began going to one of our "better" public high schools where I attended until graduation.

After I graduated high school I felt God calling me into the ministry, though I wasn't sure He wanted me to be a preacher. I knew He had plans for me, so I enrolled in Johnson Bible College (now Johnson University), and went for one semester. During my semester there I learned more about religion, Christianity, and alot of words used to study the scripture such as hermeneutics. I was following what I thought was the Lords will, until my girlfriend dumped me suddenly and without warning. Well without warning in my eyes, she was the first girlfriend I had ever had. I was 17 years old, and had been dating her for a few months but never kissed her and really didn't know what I was doing so looking back I guess I should've known it was coming. I was all mixed up, and fell back to following my flesh, dropped out of school and found some old friends and got into a bad lifestyle and drinking, and went to EMT school. To I guess compensate for my failed first relationship I began living a promiscuous lifestyle also. I had a traumatic event in March of 2007 and decided it was time to "grow up", so I went to paramedic school and as a result of that I met my now wife.
My wife is a beautiful woman, strong, and Godly. Neither of us were in what you would call a good place in life, but through hardwork, and working as a team we have made each other better and continue to do so each and every day.

Well, that's me in a nutshell, I'm sure more details will come out down the road. My testimony is still to come, I thought I should split it up otherwise it would be a book lol.

That's it for tonight folks
Yours in Christ,
Bill Higgins
Isaiah 6:8-"Then I heard a voice of the Lord saying 'Whom shal I send, and who will go for Us?' then I said 'Here I am. Send me."