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  • Story Listed as: True Life For Teens
  • Theme: Inspirational
  • Subject: Biography / Autobiography
  • Published: 11/27/2013

What's The Sense In Living, if You Can't Live For

By Findingmyway7th
Born 1949, M, from Pueblo, Colorado, United States
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What's The Sense In Living, if You Can't Live For

The year is 1969 and I was about to find out what was in store for a career criminal, who had not even reached the legal drinking age. I had been dubbed Societies' Menace. My Mother was told that the only thing that was going to stop me was a fast bullet in the back! My Paid Criminal Attorney was under investigation, due to a prominent Criminal Judge having used his own Bailiff's Gun to shoot himself. What I didn't know at the time was that I had already been traded in; in exchange for my freedom, for my Attorney's Law License. I would not see my Freedom until 1980, and that was only because of the appeal that I personally sent to the State Supreme Court, via pro se. The skills I learned while in prison earned me the nick name of, writ man. I will skip ahead to 1974 when I was sent to a Hospital in the Community, from prison I might add. This was the first attempt on my life by law enforcement. I had just entered ICU, after what was supposed to have been surgery to remove Kidney Stones. While in the ICU, while still under the effects of anesthesia, all I could see with my hazed eye's was an officer's uniform approaching my bed. At this point he started pulling the tubes that were connected to the IV, as well as the drainage tubes connected to my body....blood began shooting from my wound, at which time all I remember was someone rolling me out of the ICU. All of this follows like some sort of wild man creating scenes from a movie he had put together, in his imagination. However, this is just part of some very Real Events that happened in my life. It is very difficult remembering events that I use to feel comfortable with. At those times in my life I did not believe in "Any" God. Now, having experienced the Living God, up close and personal, and during a time when I was now facing life without the possibility of parole, I now have a very real conscience. I can no longer remain silent about what I know to be TRUE!!! God is Real and I just want other people to know. When I met the Good Lord he asked me one simple question: "Will you Serve ME Anywhere? After having been caught off guard, I could only answer, I don't know. What happened from that point on has been one miracle after another. I just had to share a little more of the book that really is not about me, it's about the life that just happened to be about me, but what caused my life to take the road that it did, and what others can learn in raising their children. Thank you. My name is Freddie Byron Donaldson and I would like to sincerely apologize to everyone that have ever come into contact with me. The book that I was led to write is titled: Anonymous Servant: The Shocking True Story Of From Shame To Gain. Available from Amazon.Co


Freddie Byron Donaldson

What's The Sense In Living, If You Can't Die For Eternity?

What's The Sense In Living, if You Can't Live For(findingmyway7th) The year is 1969 and I was about to find out what was in store for a career criminal, who had not even reached the legal drinking age. I had been dubbed Societies' Menace. My Mother was told that the only thing that was going to stop me was a fast bullet in the back! My Paid Criminal Attorney was under investigation, due to a prominent Criminal Judge having used his own Bailiff's Gun to shoot himself. What I didn't know at the time was that I had already been traded in; in exchange for my freedom, for my Attorney's Law License. I would not see my Freedom until 1980, and that was only because of the appeal that I personally sent to the State Supreme Court, via pro se. The skills I learned while in prison earned me the nick name of, writ man. I will skip ahead to 1974 when I was sent to a Hospital in the Community, from prison I might add. This was the first attempt on my life by law enforcement. I had just entered ICU, after what was supposed to have been surgery to remove Kidney Stones. While in the ICU, while still under the effects of anesthesia, all I could see with my hazed eye's was an officer's uniform approaching my bed. At this point he started pulling the tubes that were connected to the IV, as well as the drainage tubes connected to my body....blood began shooting from my wound, at which time all I remember was someone rolling me out of the ICU. All of this follows like some sort of wild man creating scenes from a movie he had put together, in his imagination. However, this is just part of some very Real Events that happened in my life. It is very difficult remembering events that I use to feel comfortable with. At those times in my life I did not believe in "Any" God. Now, having experienced the Living God, up close and personal, and during a time when I was now facing life without the possibility of parole, I now have a very real conscience. I can no longer remain silent about what I know to be TRUE!!! God is Real and I just want other people to know. When I met the Good Lord he asked me one simple question: "Will you Serve ME Anywhere? After having been caught off guard, I could only answer, I don't know. What happened from that point on has been one miracle after another. I just had to share a little more of the book that really is not about me, it's about the life that just happened to be about me, but what caused my life to take the road that it did, and what others can learn in raising their children. Thank you. My name is Freddie Byron Donaldson and I would like to sincerely apologize to everyone that have ever come into contact with me. The book that I was led to write is titled: Anonymous Servant: The Shocking True Story Of From Shame To Gain. Available from Amazon.Co


Freddie Byron Donaldson

What's The Sense In Living, If You Can't Die For Eternity?

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