By Joseph J. Bucci ——Bio and Archives--April 22, 2025

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I have not written in this space for some time. It’s not for lack of trying. I have started and stopped several articles, and all of them had good themes. There was some good content that I was creating, but it wasn’t what the Lord would have me to write.

I am not able to write anything anymore that is not inspired by the Holy Spirit. Today, after meeting with my boss and telling him this story, I sat down and had to write what the Lord was speaking to me.

I have received a gift. It’s not a gift I would ever have requested, nor something I desired to have. But it is a gift so precious that I wish I could give it to everyone whom I loved. It is the gift of knowing that there’s nothing you or anyone else can do to change the trajectory of your life that God has not allowed or set in motion. He has done this in order for you and for me to experience more of His goodness and grace.

I have become what I never wanted to be. I’ve become an unsteady old man who needs to use a cane to walk around. I never thought that this would happen to me. Even as recently as 18 months ago, I was running 2-3 miles a day and walking miles every day with my beautiful wife. The vision I had for myself was of a lean, somewhat athletic older man enjoying life and never set to retire to........

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