This sounds Great! Doesn't it!
Well for me it wasn't great but now it is.
At first I would ask for something in my life like I wanted a brand New 1968 Camaro when I was 20 in 1968. So, my father took me to a dealership and wanted me to buy a 6 cylindar 1967 Gold Camaro because he didn't want me to have a stick shift and go racing with my friends and put a hurst Shifter on it or something and racing slicks like Friends of mine did then.
I didn't want a 6 cylindar Car I wanted at least a 327 with a lot of power. I didn't really want a 396 or a 427 cubic inch car because the miles per gallon were too low and likely the engine would burn up too fast being designed more for racing and all that. I wanted a 327 Cubic Inch car because that was fast enough for what I wanted and I was sort of okay with an automatic because my father wasn't going to allow me to buy a Stick Shift Camaro anyway as long as I was living with my parents and going to college and working in the computer field then at age 20. In fact, I couldn't afford the car payments unless I lived for free at my parents which they were allowing me to do then at age 20 so I would stay around them and entertain them with my youth and since I was an only child I was the only chick in the nest so to speak for them.
So, I got exactly what I wanted in a car and my parents got what they wanted. But, then my parents moved to San Diego and this isn't what I wanted or needed when I was 21. My father could make 2 or 3 times as much working for the IBEW As a Union Electrician than owning his own non-union Electrical Contracting Business in Los Angeles so he did.
The point I'm sort of obliquely alluding to here is at 20 I had a 1968 Camaro metallic Blue with wide tires and I was king of the world. Girls wanted to date me a lot simply because I had this really beautiful fast car. However, as much as I loved this car it also got me into trouble too. So, though God allowed me to get exactly what I wanted many people were very jealous of someone only 20 years old being successful in the computer business, living at home with my parents, not being drafted into the Army and having to go to the Viet Nam War and dying or getting maimed there because remember more of my age group died in Viet Nam (born in 1948) than any other age of people. My age group was wiped out the most there of any group that went to Viet Nam then.
So, people were angry that I was alive and not in the army or dead a lot and also I went to college which a lot of people who had sons drafted because they didn't go to college hated me too for being so successful making all this money, having girlfriends and not dying or being drafted. This was a pretty intense time even in Los Angeles in 1968.
So, even though I got exactly what I wanted (a new car at age 20) and I always dated the most beautiful girls I knew who were from very good families but this just made people more and more jealous especially in my church where people were dying like flies because they wouldn't go to doctors.
To See someone as happy as I was then really pissed everyone off because most of these people's choices made them suffer all the time.
Part of this is I had discovered "The Joy of God!"
Most people are terrified of God. I'm not.
That's not my style.
I love God and he's my best buddy and we hang out 24 hours a day!
So, my life is always amazing but if you are just afraid and terrified of God your whole life tends to get stifled.
This was never my problem.
God has always given me every thing I asked him for because I Love God. I used to make up songs about how much I love God and when I do this in life God showers gifts upon me sort of like a Rich Girlfriend would shower gifts upon her lover.
I was not afraid of God because God had saved my life when I was dying at age 15. Without God I would have been dead. So I was Always happy for God and Angels in my life so I didn't have to die like I almost did from ages 10 to 15 years of age.
By God's Grace
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