Memories of a Truck Stop Chaplain (ePub)

I was a Volunteer Chaplain for about 10 years in the Truck Stop Ministry at the "Transport For Christ" (TFC) Chapel at the T/A Travel Center in North Bend, WA. I was not a "perfect "person for the position. No one really is, because no one is perfect. I admit that I was far from being considered a model Christian. I admit that I was one good example of the forgiveness that God gives to everyone who sincerely asks. Many years before I was, shall we say, a very bad boy trying to make my outside look good. It never worked. It never does! I was brought up believing that I had to be perfect or that, "the mean old white haired man upstairs was just waiting to push His thumb down on me and punish me." My belief was that He enjoyed doing that and was always looking for me to fail Him. Since I couldn't be that good, I was never going to make Heaven and always punished. I don't think that, back in those days with some brimstone still being taught, I was alone then in my thinking or, for many even today in that very same thought.

As a youngster I grew up never feeling I was of any value. It made my bad behavior and the way I treated people. It definitely set my mind up for a belief of a "self-fulfilling prophecy" to myself that I would always be a failure. In later years, dealing with it helped me to help truck drivers and others. I lived that prophecy, and lived believing I would always be unforgiven, a failure, and causing failures to happen - making them happen. No one had talked to me about Jesus at my level of understanding, just the "mean old whitehaired man above." The words were just words, adult words that as a youngster I didn't really understand. It was just theology. Church basically was a social club where I got to see friends. When I got older it was still more of a social club and I was still the bad boy inside trying to look good on the outside. One day, that all changed. I was introduced to Jesus at a Christian Rock Concert. Rock and Roll and Christianity

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