Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

[Ulysees E. McGill]

If you don’t mind sharing, was there a moment aside from this one that caused you to change? I guess I’m asking the specific moment you said “now’s the time.” My second question is how did you do it? Sounds like you were lost and a few weeks ago you walked your daughter down the aisle. Pretty cool Ulysses. Merry Christmas.

Long story short..In mid July 1998, after several years of drug addiction had destroyed literally everything, I was sitting there on the front steps thinking seriously of blowing my brains out when a miracle happened. It was one of the most surreal experiences I have ever had, and I would be a complete utter fool and liar to deny that God exists after it happened (I've had several experiences like that in my life, but this is the one that pertains to this particular event)

A complete stranger walks up to me while I was sitting there on my front steps smoking a joint and hopelessly thinking of ending myself, and bummed a cigarette, then he oddly looked at me in the eyes for long moment and tells me that he sees a darkness around me and that he felt compelled to tell me his life story, so he asks if it is alright and I just kind of looked at him like he was crazy and said "go ahead I ain't got no where to be"...

So he tells me how as a young man he had been a preacher with a wife and a young daughter, and on the way to a revival meeting a drunk driver had hit them, killing his wife and daughter...after that he said he blamed God and lost his mind and started drinking heavily.

There was a lot more after that part, but the point is that when he got finished he said "Son...call your Momma to come get you, and go home and make it stick"

I just sat there bawling the whole time he was talking and when he said that I said "I think I will"...I then said something to him about my brother getting married in a few weeks in St Pete and I was supposed to be there for the wedding, and he said that was weird because his great niece was getting married in St Pete in a few weeks...turns out his niece was the one marrying my brother..like I said this was one of the most surreal experiences I've ever had.

After that I walked up to the convenience store a mile away and called Mom collect on the pay phone out in the lot...she asked me exactly where I was at and said she had to go get my baby sister from West HS and would be there asap. From the time I called her she made it from Knoxville to Murray County Georgia in just a little over two hours.

I went home, went cold turkey and God turned my life around...I have many flaws, but I am not the person I used to be.

Especially today it rings loud and clear.."For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son"

Merry Christmas everybody.

 

[TheRain]

Horace is a nice guy, told him i needed my garden tilled once and he brought over a tractor with 100 year old horse manure out of this ancient barn, massive amounts of very old, dry manure

Came home it was tilled perfect, and fertilized

Grew the largest pumpkin in Cumberland county.... twice

Sad story behind what the govt did to him over that treehouse which he let the public come to anytime


Ended up burning it down

It was scary tall and massive

At the top was a circular large room that was a cathedral

Merry Christmas everyone

Thank you. Very little good done by this government.

 

[tomq_123]

 

[TheRain]

Merry Christmas, Morans!!!!

It was a robbery attempt by Euro-trash.

 

[bigl3327]

Merry Christmas Volnation! Wishing you all a blessed day!

 

[engineerVOL]

Long story short..In mid July 1998, after several years of drug addiction had destroyed literally everything, I was sitting there on the front steps thinking seriously of blowing my brains out when a miracle happened. It was one of the most surreal experiences I have ever had, and I would be a complete utter fool and liar to deny that God exists after it happened (I've had several experiences like that in my life, but this is the one that pertains to this particular event)

A complete stranger walks up to me while I was sitting there on my front steps, smoking a joint and hopelessly thinking of ending myself, and bummed a cigarette, then he oddly looked at me in the eyes for long moment and tells me that he sees a darkness around me and that he felt compelled to tell me his life story, so he asks if it is alright and I just kind of looked at him like he was crazy and said "go ahead I ain't got no where to be"...

So he tells me how as a young man he had been a preacher with a wife and a young daughter, and on the way to a revival meeting a drunk driver had hit them, killing his wife and daughter...after that he said he blamed God and lost his mind and started drinking heavily.

There was a lot more after that part, but the point is that when he got finished he said "Son...call your Momma to come get you, and go home and make it stick"

I just sat there bawling the whole time he was talking and when he said that I said "I think I will"...I then said something to him about my brother getting married in a few weeks in St Pete and I was supposed to be there for the wedding, and he said that was weird because his great niece was getting married in St Pete in a few weeks...turns out his neice was the one marrying my brother..like I said this was one of the most surreal experiences I've ever had.

After that I walked up to the convenience store a mile away and called Mom collect on the pay phone out in the lot...she asked me exactly where I was at and said she had to go get my baby sister from West HS and would be there asap. From the time I called her she made it from Knoxville to Murray County Georgia in just a little over two hours.

I went home, went cold turkey and God turned my life around...I have many flaws, but I am not the person I used to be.

Especially today it rings loud and clear.."For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son"

Merry Christmas everybody.

That’s unbelievably amazing, Uly. Only God. Your ‘Clarence.’ Do you still talk to this man to this day?

 

[VOLSONLY]

Long story short..In mid July 1998, after several years of drug addiction had destroyed literally everything, I was sitting there on the front steps thinking seriously of blowing my brains out when a miracle happened. It was one of the most surreal experiences I have ever had, and I would be a complete utter fool and liar to deny that God exists after it happened (I've had several experiences like that in my life, but this is the one that pertains to this particular event)

A complete stranger walks up to me while I was sitting there on my front steps, smoking a joint and hopelessly thinking of ending myself, and bummed a cigarette, then he oddly looked at me in the eyes for long moment and tells me that he sees a darkness around me and that he felt compelled to tell me his life story, so he asks if it is alright and I just kind of looked at him like he was crazy and said "go ahead I ain't got no where to be"...

So he tells me how as a young man he had been a preacher with a wife and a young daughter, and on the way to a revival meeting a drunk driver had hit them, killing his wife and daughter...after that he said he blamed God and lost his mind and started drinking heavily.

There was a lot more after that part, but the point is that when he got finished he said "Son...call your Momma to come get you, and go home and make it stick"

I just sat there bawling the whole time he was talking and when he said that I said "I think I will"...I then said something to him about my brother getting married in a few weeks in St Pete and I was supposed to be there for the wedding, and he said that was weird because his great niece was getting married in St Pete in a few weeks...turns out his neice was the one marrying my brother..like I said this was one of the most surreal experiences I've ever had.

After that I walked up to the convenience store a mile away and called Mom collect on the pay phone out in the lot...she asked me exactly where I was at and said she had to go get my baby sister from West HS and would be there asap. From the time I called her she made it from Knoxville to Murray County Georgia in just a little over two hours.

I went home, went cold turkey and God turned my life around...I have many flaws, but I am not the person I used to be.

Especially today it rings loud and clear.."For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son"

Merry Christmas everybody.

Awesome story McGill thanks for sharing. I’d like to ask everyone that will to pray for myself and kids. I’ve got some life altering decisions to make pretty soon.

 

[Ron Swanson]

Merry Christmas!

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

That’s unbelievably amazing, Uly. Only God. Your ‘Clarence.’ Do you still talk to this man to this day?

Yes..I did until he sadly passed away about 15 years ago. The meeting he had with me had a profound effect on his life too, he got saved himself, and stayed on the wagon until he passed away from cancer in the aughts.

 

[B EaZy40]

Long story short..In mid July 1998, after several years of drug addiction had destroyed literally everything, I was sitting there on the front steps thinking seriously of blowing my brains out when a miracle happened. It was one of the most surreal experiences I have ever had, and I would be a complete utter fool and liar to deny that God exists after it happened (I've had several experiences like that in my life, but this is the one that pertains to this particular event)

A complete stranger walks up to me while I was sitting there on my front steps, smoking a joint and hopelessly thinking of ending myself, and bummed a cigarette, then he oddly looked at me in the eyes for long moment and tells me that he sees a darkness around me and that he felt compelled to tell me his life story, so he asks if it is alright and I just kind of looked at him like he was crazy and said "go ahead I ain't got no where to be"...

So he tells me how as a young man he had been a preacher with a wife and a young daughter, and on the way to a revival meeting a drunk driver had hit them, killing his wife and daughter...after that he said he blamed God and lost his mind and started drinking heavily.

There was a lot more after that part, but the point is that when he got finished he said "Son...call your Momma to come get you, and go home and make it stick"

I just sat there bawling the whole time he was talking and when he said that I said "I think I will"...I then said something to him about my brother getting married in a few weeks in St Pete and I was supposed to be there for the wedding, and he said that was weird because his great niece was getting married in St Pete in a few weeks...turns out his neice was the one marrying my brother..like I said this was one of the most surreal experiences I've ever had.

After that I walked up to the convenience store a mile away and called Mom collect on the pay phone out in the lot...she asked me exactly where I was at and said she had to go get my baby sister from West HS and would be there asap. From the time I called her she made it from Knoxville to Murray County Georgia in just a little over two hours.

I went home, went cold turkey and God turned my life around...I have many flaws, but I am not the person I used to be.

Especially today it rings loud and clear.."For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son"

Merry Christmas everybody.

Thanks for sharing, McGill. Merry Christmas!

 

[TheRain]

 

[KptVFL]

Merry Christmas morans!

 

[KptVFL]

Long story short..In mid July 1998, after several years of drug addiction had destroyed literally everything, I was sitting there on the front steps thinking seriously of blowing my brains out when a miracle happened. It was one of the most surreal experiences I have ever had, and I would be a complete utter fool and liar to deny that God exists after it happened (I've had several experiences like that in my life, but this is the one that pertains to this particular event)

A complete stranger walks up to me while I was sitting there on my front steps, smoking a joint and hopelessly thinking of ending myself, and bummed a cigarette, then he oddly looked at me in the eyes for long moment and tells me that he sees a darkness around me and that he felt compelled to tell me his life story, so he asks if it is alright and I just kind of looked at him like he was crazy and said "go ahead I ain't got no where to be"...

So he tells me how as a young man he had been a preacher with a wife and a young daughter, and on the way to a revival meeting a drunk driver had hit them, killing his wife and daughter...after that he said he blamed God and lost his mind and started drinking heavily.

There was a lot more after that part, but the point is that when he got finished he said "Son...call your Momma to come get you, and go home and make it stick"

I just sat there bawling the whole time he was talking and when he said that I said "I think I will"...I then said something to him about my brother getting married in a few weeks in St Pete and I was supposed to be there for the wedding, and he said that was weird because his great niece was getting married in St Pete in a few weeks...turns out his neice was the one marrying my brother..like I said this was one of the most surreal experiences I've ever had.

After that I walked up to the convenience store a mile away and called Mom collect on the pay phone out in the lot...she asked me exactly where I was at and said she had to go get my baby sister from West HS and would be there asap. From the time I called her she made it from Knoxville to Murray County Georgia in just a little over two hours.

I went home, went cold turkey and God turned my life around...I have many flaws, but I am not the person I used to be.

Especially today it rings loud and clear.."For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son"

Merry Christmas everybody.

What an awesome story! Merry Christmas brother!

 

[Orangeburst]

Long story short..In mid July 1998, after several years of drug addiction had destroyed literally everything, I was sitting there on the front steps thinking seriously of blowing my brains out when a miracle happened. It was one of the most surreal experiences I have ever had, and I would be a complete utter fool and liar to deny that God exists after it happened (I've had several experiences like that in my life, but this is the one that pertains to this particular event)

A complete stranger walks up to me while I was sitting there on my front steps, smoking a joint and hopelessly thinking of ending myself, and bummed a cigarette, then he oddly looked at me in the eyes for long moment and tells me that he sees a darkness around me and that he felt compelled to tell me his life story, so he asks if it is alright and I just kind of looked at him like he was crazy and said "go ahead I ain't got no where to be"...

So he tells me how as a young man he had been a preacher with a wife and a young daughter, and on the way to a revival meeting a drunk driver had hit them, killing his wife and daughter...after that he said he blamed God and lost his mind and started drinking heavily.

There was a lot more after that part, but the point is that when he got finished he said "Son...call your Momma to come get you, and go home and make it stick"

I just sat there bawling the whole time he was talking and when he said that I said "I think I will"...I then said something to him about my brother getting married in a few weeks in St Pete and I was supposed to be there for the wedding, and he said that was weird because his great niece was getting married in St Pete in a few weeks...turns out his neice was the one marrying my brother..like I said this was one of the most surreal experiences I've ever had.

After that I walked up to the convenience store a mile away and called Mom collect on the pay phone out in the lot...she asked me exactly where I was at and said she had to go get my baby sister from West HS and would be there asap. From the time I called her she made it from Knoxville to Murray County Georgia in just a little over two hours.

I went home, went cold turkey and God turned my life around...I have many flaws, but I am not the person I used to be.

Especially today it rings loud and clear.."For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son"

Merry Christmas everybody.

Great Christmas message. It could be a movie.

 

[TheRain]

 

[Orangeburst]

Just looked it up..It is colder in Tennessee today than Reykjavic
And why is Iceland green and Greenland ice?

 

[Volbucky]

And why is Iceland green and Greenland ice?

They named them that way to detour immigrants.

 

[Vols4us]

Long story short..In mid July 1998, after several years of drug addiction had destroyed literally everything, I was sitting there on the front steps thinking seriously of blowing my brains out when a miracle happened. It was one of the most surreal experiences I have ever had, and I would be a complete utter fool and liar to deny that God exists after it happened (I've had several experiences like that in my life, but this is the one that pertains to this particular event)

A complete stranger walks up to me while I was sitting there on my front steps, smoking a joint and hopelessly thinking of ending myself, and bummed a cigarette, then he oddly looked at me in the eyes for long moment and tells me that he sees a darkness around me and that he felt compelled to tell me his life story, so he asks if it is alright and I just kind of looked at him like he was crazy and said "go ahead I ain't got no where to be"...

So he tells me how as a young man he had been a preacher with a wife and a young daughter, and on the way to a revival meeting a drunk driver had hit them, killing his wife and daughter...after that he said he blamed God and lost his mind and started drinking heavily.

There was a lot more after that part, but the point is that when he got finished he said "Son...call your Momma to come get you, and go home and make it stick"

I just sat there bawling the whole time he was talking and when he said that I said "I think I will"...I then said something to him about my brother getting married in a few weeks in St Pete and I was supposed to be there for the wedding, and he said that was weird because his great niece was getting married in St Pete in a few weeks...turns out his neice was the one marrying my brother..like I said this was one of the most surreal experiences I've ever had.

After that I walked up to the convenience store a mile away and called Mom collect on the pay phone out in the lot...she asked me exactly where I was at and said she had to go get my baby sister from West HS and would be there asap. From the time I called her she made it from Knoxville to Murray County Georgia in just a little over two hours.

I went home, went cold turkey and God turned my life around...I have many flaws, but I am not the person I used to be.

Especially today it rings loud and clear.."For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son"

Merry Christmas everybody.

Thanks for planting the little seed...

Once you know what you know.

Now if I could only get you to "believe" we will win at least 10 games next season. It's OK, I will remind you this time next year.

Merry Christmas, Ulysses.

 

[TheBigOne10]

Merry Christmas from my little hellions!!!

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Thanks for planting the little seed...

Once you know what you know.

Now if I could only get you to "believe" we will win at least 10 games next season. It's OK, I will remind you this time next year.

Merry Christmas, Ulysses.

Lol..

 

[JCVol00]

Merry Christmas to everyone except Bama fans, Georgia Fans, Shane Beamer, people who moan when they eat and Florida fans

 

[UT = Checkmate]

Merry Christmas!

 

[Ulysees E. McGill]

Sitting here watching the Trans-Siberian orchestra Christmas Special after mindlessly flipping through channels...so beautiful.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Santa out delivering Big Orange swag tonight!View attachment 526515

"Boy's" size socks?

Edit: Nevermind, you're Santa in this case.

 

[AAVFL]

Merry Christmas Volnation!