Baby Alice is doing okay. The first set of test results have come through clear and they're the real big 'nasties' so that is encouraging. She's waiting on some more tomorrow but she could definitely do with the prayers still and her family too.
Thank you.
I am soooooo happy to have been led to this thread by my Higher Power! A Christian group on an erotic writer's site!!! Who says God doesn't work in mysterious ways??? 
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Blessings each day everyone!!!
...and His kid aint a bad tour guide neither!
Permit me to tell some about myself.
My pen name is J. Kendall Dane, but I will answer most quickly to "Hey, Josh" usually.
I am old enough to buy liquor, but not old enough for Social Security. (i think everything in between is just a route number on the journey)
I grew up in a small town on the Ohio River doing the small town SE Ohio stuff a boy does. Like boy scouts, football, hunting, skinny dipping, church camp, trying to lose their virginity, and most importantly: keeping the attraction for other boys very deep in the closet. "Nail that sucker shut AND bury the hammer too!" was the unstated rule of life.
I spent my youth being force fed an uber-conservative version of religion at an even more unber-conservative Church of Christ congregation. One that can only be described as believing that Billy Graham was a flaming, screaming, apostate liberal; and that they; WERE IN FACT 'CAUSE IT'S IN THE BIBLE; "gonna be the ONLY ones to get to heaven!" (needless to say, i escaped that situation and brainwashing as soon as it was feasible)
Many twists & turns, and wide boulevards & trips down side roads, and a few dusty trails & hacking a path thru a jungle or two later....God told the prodigal son to 'come home'....and I did thanks to the Metropolitan Community Churches. ("told" isn't the correct word, but "nudged me towards a door and finally just yanked my ass inside & slammed it down in a pew for what He wanted me to hear" sounds so wrong! LOL)
I do write gay smut for the site. But I also tend to somehow weave God, and Christ, and even a Bible verse reference into a storyline at times. Haven't been stoned for it yet; but ya never know. Still finding out about how some people will take two gay lovers holding hands at a sunrise praise service being the paragraph following an intense (and highly descriptive) love making scene from the night before on the spring break cruise they are on.
(as i told another author friend from LE; that i trade emails with often; just a day or two ago: "If Mr. & Mrs. Uptite Uprite Baptist can get naked and do it on the kitchen table after pot luck Sunday to burn off the extra calories....why can't their 18 year old son and his 25 y/o "best buddy" do the same thing in the barn? Call it God's way of saying "It's ok & thanks for being in the choir, guys!"
Anywhooooo.....just really, really, REALLY happy to have found you guys....and hope to be a semi-regular.
I will leave you with what I adopted as my mantra when it comes to explaining faith and God and "religious" stuff:
"God gave us dogs so we would understand what love means; and then He invented cats so we could comprehend what He wanted us to know about serving others!" (there is really wild 'No God didn't!' story behind where that originated; but that's for another time)
God does move in mysterious ways and every time a new friend pops in here I get another blast of thankfulness that I listened to God and created this thread all those years ago now. It beings so many blessings.
