NDE & ESM

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com 

 

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Have you ever heard of an NDE? What about an ESM?

They both are brutal and beautiful all at the same time. 

 

Near death experience changed his life forever and his ultimate death. 

ESM Eat Shit Moment… you are forced to go through something you would never choose for yourself. Cancer, divorce, a spouse having and affair, Child in prison, 

 

They can change us. And I don’t just mean change us in ways that are outside of our control… but also You get to stop, take account, perceive into the future and realize you CAN rebuild and you can move forward. Yes Pain, yes time, yes cost… but you can overcome it.

 

NDE’s and ESM’s also share the ability to push us to live our ultimate life. One of the things I have enjoyed about cancer so many times is that I know first hand that tomorrow is not promised. Now is the time to act… Now is the time to take that chance… now is the time to risk, now is the time to believe, move and have your being. 

My wife absolutely loves me, but she will admit i drive her nuts. I have a speaking company, I have a clothing line, I have a personal training business, I am finishing my 14th book, I have a coaster company for weddings parties sports events women events… I take guitar and drums lessons and I give guitar and drum lessons, I am starting another clothing line, I have a daily podcast (bet you didn’t know that) I have been working on an app that is set to launch globally in about a month (working on that for 3 years) I am working on starting another gym after previously owning one that was voted #1 in the country, I am launching a new podcast and Patreon channel oh… yea, Im also a pastor and traveling speaker.

So you say why and how? This is not about me, but for a second I will tell you how - first thing is I take care of myself so I have lots of energy, secondly I don’t waste time in front of TV… if its on I am  watching a football game but my computer is on and I am almost always working. Third, I read - A lot. It feeds everything else I do and makes things easier. Reading is my fuel to spiritual fire, to business ideas and know how and my mental library for continued speaking and writing.

But here is the why… why not? Why not go for all you feel like you were created for. Most people will tell you they feel like they were created for more, that there has got to be more… but they never act on it… We all have talents, untapped dreams, potential and secret goals/hopes. They don’t just happen, you gotta go after them. Life might be over for you in 2 days… just last week outside our church we had a head on collision - two women in their 40’s. One tried to pass and ran head long into the other woman driving. Game over, times up. It is tragic… but so is living to a 100 and not tapping your potential… not at least trying. Remember the movie 3 o’clock high… the bully stares into the kids face and says “you didn’t even try”. Ohh that gets me every time. 

Ecc. 11:6 Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let your hands not be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.

 

So you have your day job… sewing seed, and you have your free hours in the evening… what are your hands doing? Are they idle… by that I mean are you on your phone, computer, TV, is all your time on hobbies that will not really produce anything… and look, some people are made to just work enough to pay the bills and they want to just hang out at home… thats cool. But what also about your spiritual walk? Are you stagnant in that as well? 

 

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

One more sage piece of advice from the wisest man on earth. Get better. Want to make things easier- get better. When I was learning how to play guitar a long time ago… I think 33 years ago, I was having a hard time playing bar chords… and I was complaining to my good friend Scott Miller who is a MONSTAH guitar player. he said well did anyone ever tell you the secret to playing great bar chords? I was shocked… no, no one has what is it… he leans into me as if to whisper quietly so the Russians don’t hear… and he says “practice”. Funny, but it also hit me between the eyes. Get better.

My advice to you today? If you are not doing it- try it. And if you are doing it- get better at it! 

As solomon said “you never know what will grow when you sow”.