{"id":90,"date":"2014-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/indygoldmind\/the-art-of-storytelling-the-day-god-told-me-to-shut-the-up\/"},"modified":"2014-01-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T00:00:00","slug":"the-art-of-storytelling-the-day-god-told-me-to-shut-the-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/indygoldmind\/the-art-of-storytelling-the-day-god-told-me-to-shut-the-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art Of Storytelling &#8211; The Day God Told Me To Shut The $%#! Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"previewPostBlock imagePostBlock\">\n<div class=\"posRelative\">\n<ul class=\"postImageSlider\">\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.empowernetwork.com\/user_images\/post\/2014\/01\/11\/0\/fc\/edca\/540x293_20140111_0fcedca2ce4b31438990a2712618199c_jpg.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"293\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; margin: 0 auto 0 0; padding-top: 20px; \">\n<div id=\"slides_counter\" style=\"color: #CCCCCC;\"><b><label id=\"imgIndex\" style=\"cursor: default;\">1<\/label><label style=\"cursor: default;\"> of <\/label><label id=\"imgCount\" style=\"cursor: default;\">1<\/label><\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div class=\"pager\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>They say bloggers are supposed to be transparent&#8230;..share their stories, their lives and insight in order to be authentic. That enables the blogger to connect to their audience better and not come off like a robot chained to a computer.<\/p>\n<p>No personality. I get it. So&#8230;.let me get my <strong>storytelling\u00a0<\/strong>on and tell you about the day God told me to shut the $%#! up. <u>No, really<\/u>. Check this out&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like 1998. I&#8217;m 21 and wet behind the ears. Dripping wet. I&#8217;d went away to college to North Carolina A&amp;T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;d recently gotten word that my then girlfriend (now gorgeous wife) was pregnant with our first son, Jalen. So I moved back home to Gary, Indiana to be close to them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d transferred to a local college, Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana. I was going to school full time, working a shitty job and living in my grandmother&#8217;s basement.<\/p>\n<p>Hey&#8230;.what the hell are you laughing at? It was <em>kinda<\/em> like my own house, give me a break.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway&#8230;it&#8217;s a Saturday&#8230;I remember it like it was yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>My girlfriend was over to the house and I was in full whine mode. I was complaining about how things weren&#8217;t going well, I had no sense of direction, I didn&#8217;t like my major and most importantly&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><em>I was complaining about how funny my money was. I mean&#8230;my money was funny&#8230;Kevin Hart funny<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>My job didn&#8217;t pay much, I&#8217;d already received my student loan refund check (and spent it), and had no other answers in sight. So, I&#8217;m on a full fledged rant&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>My girlfriend was sitting there, being as supportive as possible trying to talk me down off the ledge. Out the corner of my eye, I see my grandmother start walking to the front door&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is where it gets good.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still whining..whine&#8230;whine&#8230;whine. Evidently, my grandmother went to the front door to check the mail because&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of one of my whines, she emerges into the room my girl and I were sitting in. She hands me an envelope&#8230;..from my college.<\/p>\n<p><em>What the hell is this? It better not be a damn bill&#8230;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I open the envelope and it&#8217;s a\u00a0<strong><\/strong>. As my pupils focused in on the dollar amount and my mouth drops, I hear clearly in my ear&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Now shut the f$%! up!\u00a0I told you. I got you. Always have. Always will. Trust me.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I know everybody has their own conversations with God. I get that. Your God might not curse at you. Mine obviously does because\u00a0I know what I heard. And it was clearly was a curse word.<\/p>\n<p>And I deserved it.<\/p>\n<p>To this day, I do not know why I received that check. I was not owed any money. Believe me, I&#8217;d checked. Nobody ever came after me for the money back. Ever.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know WHY I got that money but I do know WHO\u00a0it came from. I learned a valuable lesson that day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Believing in God is one thing. Trusting in Him is another.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>God has blessed me so much in my life. And after that day&#8230;.<u>I decided to never doubt him again<\/u>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Please share this with your friends!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/DamianJLondon.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Daily Blog of Damian J. London\">DamianJLondon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S. Want a blog of your own? 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