AJ Patnode and Family

Letter from Dad

DON'T EVER GIVE UP ON YOUR LIFE.

What ever you are doing in your life DON'T EVER GIVE UP ON YOUR LIFE.

You can and you will do all the things GOD needs you to do. GOD made us for him self. We belong to GOD and GOD will see to it we get to the place he needs us to be. Yes life some times is very hard on us but that is how we grow to know GOD better. GOD lets the bad things happen to us not because he wants us to suffer but because he knows more then we do about life and our real needs. We are meant to become perfect before GOD'S EYES. so GOD lets only the things we can handle and grow from happen. Oh yes some times we don't like it. But this is the times we need to ask Jesus to carry us threw it and he will.GOD can only do this if we let him.

I have been living only a short 34 years now. I try to give every day of my life to GOD. Many days I have a hard time giving GOD my life. I have had many battles and fighting with the evil in my life. Satan tests me daily. Some of his testing has been in having five open heart surgeries in my life. Growing up was not always fun. I did not get to do a lot of the things other kids did like sports. I also have dyslexia and was 22 by the time I could read at the high school level. I now have a BA & MA. I read better now and still spell very poorly. I did not like all the things this stuff was about in my life. GOD was there all the time. I can see Jesus was carrying me all that time.

In 1997 I thought my life could not get any harder. I had paid my dues by then I thought. I got married to beautiful loving Lori. We soon had a son Albert (we call AJ). Our son is the coolest kid I have ever met. He has taught me more than any one person ever has. Not just because he is my kid but because he truly belongs to GODfirst before he belongs to us. He came in to my life to change every thing I know about life. My son AJ is a kid of special needs. He has scoliosis ( his back looks like a big S ) and his legs do not move. One arm does not move at all and the other arm has only partial movement. He eats by a tube in his tummy and can't swallow. He has a tube in his neck to breath through. His bones are fragile and break easily. He can only sit up for a short time in a day. We have 16 hours of nursing a day to help us. My wife and I have seen many doctors about him. The world's leading doctor in the problems he has told us he would live only two weeks. Well, she did not know that GOD is in control of my son's life. He is now 23 months old and loves to play. Thank you GOD, Jesus and Holy Spirit

All the things here I have told you I would have not ask for but GOD allowed me to have so I can grow to be a better man for GOD. Many times I have cried, I plan to cry a lot more before I finish my life. I am glad and thankful GOD has given me all these things to live through. Because I have seen more love in this world then most people ever do. I was told GOD IS LOVE so I have seen GOD in my life. GOD is the most beautiful of all. GOD'S Son Jesus had a hard life and then died for all of us because he loved us so much. My life is light and easy I am not suffering for every one as Jesus did. So what can I give to Jesus only my self and my family. Also I give all the accomplishments of my life to Jesus. Every laugh or tear I have had, Jesus felt. As he is here carrying me and giving his life for mine every day I live. I'm not worthy of all that GOD gives to me. No, not at all.

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