The Good Ole Boys: Paul and the Road of Damascus" Introduction

There’s just some things you gotta experience yourself. Ain’t nothing nobody can do, but warn you about them. As much as they warn you on what to do or rather what not to do, you can’t help, but find yourself “up the creek; without a paddle”.

So, on that note I’d like to introduce you to Paul. He’s just a good ole country boy that never meant nobody, no harm. That’s the lull that rocked him to sleep and he woke up to a life that’d gone down the wrong road trying to make it through the shortcuts and back roads we take in life; avoiding the only answer and route we have to truly find contentment in this life or the hereafter (JESUS!!!).

This Paul shares a lot in common with the biblical Saul/Paul of Tarsus who also has a life transforming experience along the road to Damascus (The Holy Bible. Acts Chapter 9). There are a lot of intended biblical parallels that you may notice and others that you will find referenced for further personal study. I’ve likewise included song references to many key songs whose lyrics really help capture the essence of what Paul (and possibly you) find himself going through. Country music and country living really have more fundamentally in common with “country salvation”; something you can’t find or replace anywhere, but on your knees at the altar praying through or raising up from that water baptism under an ole cast iron bridge in running water. Thank God for small country church congregations, Sunday school teachers that teach it and preach it, and lil ole deacons who chide youngsters with lines like “you’re cruisin’ for a bruisin’ young man!”

The characters and events in this fictional work are inspired by real life events, but in no way shape or form are meant to be portrayed as exactly what happened or why it happened. It shall always be my intention that we all seek out our own salvation with fear and trembling and remove the beam from our own eye before we point out the speck in our brother’s eye. Reflecting on lessons learned whether they are our own or someone else should ALWAYS be done with the discernment and application of God’s word with the aid of prayer; seeking the Holy Spirit too!!!

Enjoy and may God bless you!