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Hey partner how are you doing…. since our last meeting? Wait before you answer that I want to let you know…. how proud I am of you! I can just see the difference in your attitude and demeanor…. since the start of my mission! Ok now that I said that… you can answer my question! Gee Nino I don’t want to bring down your positive energy… but things haven’t been changing as quickly as I would have hoped! Nino I don’t mean to sound negative towards you…. but I’m starting to lose patience with my training! Nino I’m just amazed of how much patience…you seem to have with everything you have done in your life! Nino I just have to ask you…. where have you gotten all that patience from?
Well you’ve done it again partner! What Nino? I knew there was a reason… why God brought us together! Well you just gave me the topic…. for our next discussion! Believe or not another goal that God want’s me to accomplish…. is to to teach you a lesson in patience! I truly feel that this is one area that our society…. really seems to be lacking in big time! Just think about it a minute everything that we do in our lives…. requires us to have a great deal of patience! Wouldn’t you agree??
Well in my next blog I’m going to not only teach you but also share with you… how I’ve been able to have so much patience with all that I’ve had to deal with in my life! Believe me I’ll be the first to admit patience wasn’t one of my strong suits…. until God came into the picture and told me otherwise! I’m going to bring you back to a time in my life when I completely lost all patience in having to deal… with an incredible amount of circumstances that changed my life! Well that all changed when…. God’s grace took over!
Are you ready for me to educate you in how God’s grace…. can give you all the patience that you never dreamed possible! Well it’s like I’ve been telling you…. anything is possible with God in your life! Well I certainly hope you’ll have the patience with me, as I teach you this very important lesson…. on how to have patience with the grace of God!!
Here we go again!
Well you can probably imagine about what I’ve told you so far… about my challenges in my life it sure required me to have a great deal of patience! Well your absolutely right! Well I’ll tell you right now I wasn’t blessed by God… with alot of patience at the start of my life! I got news for you that’s all changed…. because I now have God’s grace to supply me with an unbelieveable amount of patience! I think a good example to show you that this is all so true…is when I had to go through six months of rehabilitation! Well as you now know that was a result… of the many unsuccessful surgeries I had done to my legs to try to correct them!
I had to basically learn how to walk all over again… not on my own but with crutches! Let me tell you my patience to go through rehab….was not at an all time high at that particular time! It wasn’t until God got a hold me and said…. Nino “No Excuses” my grace will give you all the patience you need! I definitely was not going to say no to God….so I started rehab relying on God’s grace to get me through! Let me tell you things just seem to go alot smoother….with God in the picture than it is trying to do things on your own! Well before I knew it those six months of rehab…. just flew by and I was walking on crutches!
I’ll be totally honest with you there was no way I would have been able to… get through those six months without the grace of God! Listen throughout my life God has made me realize one thing…. you can not handle situations in life without God! I used to go through life thinking like you which is…. I can handle everything on my own! Listen partner take it from me as I told you I wasn’t blessed with having alot of patience… until I turned to God! The message I’m trying to send to you is simple…. no matter how tough you think you are you can’t go through life without God’s grace!!
Listen I truly believe our society today is failing big time… on the art of patience! This goal needs to be met!! I know without a shadow of a doubt with God’s grace by my side…. he will give me the patience to accomplish it successfully! God wants us all to realize one thing in life! We can’t always have what we want… when we want it! Here is some advice that God has given me… that I want to share with you! It’s not in our time… it’s always in God’s time! I’m here to tell you…. God’s grace is always sufficient!
I definitely know one thing God has been blessing me with his grace…. since the start of my mission! There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind when the time is right…. God will open that door that I’ve been praying for! So what are you waiting for God’s grace is upon you…. all you need to do is as him for some! Oh one thing when you ask him don’t make excuses why you waited this long…. remember God knows everything about you!!
March 25th, 2007
Hey my good friend it’s always a pleasure to see you again! I just have to tell you I can’t believe the number of positive comments…. that I have been receiving by people! I truly feel that God has been blessing my mission… in all sorts of ways that I never would have imagined! I definitely feel that God has given me hope… that my mission will continue to prosper! Usually your the one that gives me an idea…. for the topic of our next discussion! I think your slacking today…. because I think God has just beaten you to the punch! I believe God has just given me a message loud and clear….. for another goal he want’s me to accomplish in regards to my mission!
I definitely wouldn’t want you to feel left out! Would you like to take a wild guess…. on what that goal might be? No guesses ok…. you know I’m always here to help you out with the answer! Well here it is are you listening! In my next blog I’m going to teach you that you should never give up hope…. with your dreams or anything for that matter that you’ve been wanting in your life! I truly understand how difficult it could be at times to have hope in something…. that just seems impossible that it will ever happen!
I have news for you…. God has brought this mission to me in bring new hope to you in your life! I certainly don’t want you to continue… to go through life any longer feeling hopeless! Well are you ready for me to teach you how…. God is the only hope you need to help you through difficult times that just seem hopeless!
Are you ready to fill your glass with overflowing hope…. that only God can fill for you!
Here we go again!
Well I should I go about teaching you this important lesson…. on to never give up hope in life reguardless of the situation your facing! I think this brings me back to an old saying that God has taught me…. throughout my challenging life! Would you like to hear it? Ok here it is! “When you think there is absolutely no hope left…. turn to God and he will give you more than you can ever imagine possible”! Let me go on the record and tell you…. that is so true!! This clearly reminds me of a time in my life when that saying…. was really put to the test! I’m going to share with you the time of my birth… when my family and doctors lost all hope that I would survive!
Well as you read in my bio…. I was born three months premature! Now that usually means one or two things…. either you will “live” or “die”! I feel in my case the odds that my doctors gave me to survive… were extremely low! So they told my family to basically hope and pray for a miracle…. because they did all they could do at that point! Gee I don’t know about you but they sure seemed pretty convinced…. of the fact that I wouldn’t pull through!
I guess what convinced them of that…. were three key factors! First I only weighed 2 1/2 pounds at birth… that’s sure pretty small for a new born! Second my lungs…. were severely damaged during labor! Those two factors right there were more than convincing for anyone to believe… that I wouldn’t survive! Oh I almost forgot the most important factor! I was given too much oxygen during labor…. which affected the muscles in my legs… and may have also caused damage to my brain!! So I guess that would be fair to conclude…. that my doctors were right about needing a “miracle” for me to survive!!
Well it all came down to now waiting to see…. if I would survive these incredible sets of circumstances! The doctors only gave me thirty-six hours to live! It came down to one person to decide my fate…. God! I was put in the I.C.U. so they could monitor those thirty-six hours closely…. for any chances of improvement I had to survive! So my family began to pray to God…. hoping that he wouldn’t take me just yet! The hours began to quickly tick away…. with absoulutley no signs of improvement! It all came down to twenty-four hours…. still no signs that I would pull through! My family began to lose all hope…. that God would answer their prayers for a miracle!!
My family then decided to have a priest…. give me my last rites before passing! So you can probably assume at this point….it seemed hopeless that I would survive! The time had come for the priest…. to send me to heaven in peace with a final prayer! Wait just a minute…. the priest was beginning to pray when something amazing was happening! Gee Nino what was happening?? I’ll definitely tell you what was happening…. a “miracle”!!
It was truly amazing as the priest began to pray….. the machines that were barely keeping me alive showed signs of life! The doctors and my family couldn’t believe their eyes…. I was very much still in the game! The doctors really had no explanation! Like I said to you they did everything in their power…. to keep me alive! Well now I’m going to give you a chance to tell me…. your thoughts on what was happening! Gee Nino…. I have no idea! Well let me try to help you out again…. God was keeping me alive!
When everyone in that room thought I was about to checkout…. God decided to check in! I believe the message God was sending to everyone that day…. was simply “have you no hope in ME”!! Well as a result of what happen that day…. I was given another nickname by God! Would you like to know… the nickname?? Here it is…. “The Miracle Child”!
Listen this goal is extremely important for me personally to accomplish successfully! I sincerely hope that you were able to get one very important lesson… from all this! The lesson I’m trying to teach you here is very simple! No matter how hopeless a situation or circumstance that you are faced with might be…… never give hope on God!!
It’s like I’ve been telling you since the beginning of my mission…. anything is possible with God even bringing you back from near death! I definitely know all about that!! I wouldn’t be here telling you this story…. if it weren’t for my hope in God! I only have one question to ask you! How filled with God’s hope has your glass been lately in your life?? I definitely know for me…. my glass has been overflowing with God’s hope in my life!!
March 12th, 2007
Hello once again my friend! I have to be totally honest with you! I’m very grateful to God for allowing me, to come into your life in such a unique way that I never would have imagined! As I’ve been telling you … expect the unexpected when God has control of your life! Gee why the long face? If my memory serves me right the last time… we were together you were so full of confidence! Well I think I might have a solution for you …. for getting out of your depression! Believe or not God has made DEPRESSION another one of my goals…. to teach you how to beat it without depending on medication or seeing doctors!
I sincerely feel that our society today has become way too dependent…. way too long on the extensive use of using medication and seeing doctors as the only sources of help in dealing with their depression! Well I’ve got news for you… not anymore! Listen God has brought this MISSION to me not only to share with you …. my story and accomplishments but to also help you! I know from experience on what depression can do to you … but I also know that medication and doctors can only help you so much! This goal is extremely important for me to accomplish successfully because I lived it!! If your wondering if I’m still living it… not a chance! I did it without the use of medication or doctors in my life! I allowed God to help me instead …. I found it to be much cheaper! God’s price was free of charge!
In my next blog I’m determined to show you… why God is the solution to help you with your depression! I sincerely feel that You have convinced yourself that using medication and seeing doctors …. are your only choices in life! Well I’m going to show you that God’s track record is untouchable …. when it comes to totally curing illnesses of any kind! Well let’s not waste anymore time talking about it…. let’s take action!!
Are you ready?
Let’s get going!!
Well I definitley know that God’s success rate cannot be matched when it comes to curing an illness! For instance God has made the blind see by just HIM touching their eyes!! I don’t know today of any doctors or medication for that matter…. who have been able to honestly say they have done that!! Listen if you don’t believe me … again I challenge you to read the bible sometime, it is the most widely read book in the world! Believe me when I tell you… the bible speaks the truth!! I truly believe the only thing that doctors and medication have successfully done for you…. is convince you that their the only solution in treating your depression!
In case you’ve forgotten in what I’ve been telling you … let me help you again! I know the answer should be of no surprise to you…. at least I hope not! God is the only one who can help you with your situations in life!! I certainly know that HE’S been waiting for you to ask HIM… to help cure your depression for good!! Gee what are you afraid of…. actually witnessing God’s healing power!! Like I’ve been telling you all HE want’s from you… is to trust in HIM!! Well all I know it’s worked for me …. don’t you think it’s time it work for you too!! Though I do believe there are different degrees of depression. I think what I first did was ask myself why do I even feel depressed? The Lord then allowed me to realize how I really have nothing, to feel depressed about when I have been given so much! It does not happen over night, but the way of thinking changed over time.
Listen like I said to you this particular goal is extremely…. important for me to accomplish successfully! Let’s go back towards the beginning of my MISSION! Do you remember those famous two words…. that your now living by?? Well I have a strong feeling that you have completely forgotten them…. NO EXCUSES!! I believe that you’ve been making nothing but excuses …. by taking medication and seeing doctors! Like I said they can only help you so much! I have a solution for you why not give God a try…. what do you have to lose! God’s services are free to you… while these others have been costing you!! It’s your choice I can’t make it for you…. I can only share with you what has helped me! Here is some advice for you to base your decision on…. those famous TWO words that I’m teaching you to live by NO EXCUSES!!
February 11th, 2007
Hey it’s GREAT to see YOU again! I’ve been REALLY enjoying MY MISSION so far I can see YOU are too, because YOUR still with ME! That also tells ME an IMPORTANT fact, YOUR putting a GREAT deal of TRUST in ME! Well that’s funny because that’s another IMPORTANT goal of mine, that I intend to accomplish with the GRACE of God! I’ve put MY complete TRUST in God that he will make NINO’S MISSION, into a HUGE SUCCESS for his GLORY!! I believe TRUST is something we ALL have a TOUGH time with, in today’s DIVIDED society that we live in!
MY goal here is simple I DON’T want YOU to continue to go through life ANYMORE asking YOURSELF…. Who can I TRUST? I DEFINITELY know the ONLY person I TRUST in MY life, and that’s God! I’m going to teach YOU how to start living YOUR life, putting COMPLETE TRUST in God with YOUR life situations from now on! What better person to TRUST than the ONE who gave YOU life!!
Are you ready?
Let’s get the ball rolling once again!
In MY next blog I’m going to share with YOU a situation, that had occured in MY life that really put my TRUST in God to the TEST! It was about a couple of years ago when MY life took an unexpected U-Turn, that caught ME by SURPRISE! I went to work one day and I was told that they were letting ME go, I believe the reason behind it was POLITICAL! Well as we ALL know today how our society, is politically MOTIVATED in most job sectors around the world! We NEVER expect it to happen to US…. but as I quickly found out it happened to ME! That’s when I turned to God for help, because I felt betrayed and HE was the ONLY one I could TRUST!
I truly believe that this was a WAKE-UP call from God that HE was starting, to take TOTAL control of MY life and taking it into a NEW direction! It’s AMAZING how God works at times…. HE took an UNFORTUNATE situation to teach ME a VALUABLE lesson! Would YOU like to take a wild guess on what the LESSON might be? It’s simple TRUST in GOD!! God had something else up HIS sleeve for ME…. I had ABSOLUTELY no clue on what that might be UNTIL NOW!! Would YOU like to take another wild guess….. on what that might be? Are YOU telling ME you DON’T have a clue! GEE I think it’s time for YOU to have YOUR eyes EXAMINED!! YOU’VE been looking at it this WHOLE time we’ve been together…. NINO’S MISSION!!
I SINCERELY feel the lesson that GOD wanted to teach me here, was HE made an UNFORTUNATE situation happen to give birth to NINO’S MISSION! Let ME make ONE thing clear to YOU! If I didn’t let GOD take FULL control and TRUST HIM 100 percent with MY life, I would NOT be here talking to YOU about a MISSION!! Still to this day I’m just AMAZED how GOD works!! I KNOW when the time comes…. God will OPEN that door of opportunity that I have been PRAYING for! Oh YEAH there’s another lesson God has taught me…. TRUST in HIM and HE will DELIVER! I TRULY believe that time is coming SOON!!
It’s that time again!!
I hope YOUR ready to answer THE ?? Who do YOU TRUST?
I SINCERELEY hope you’ve been taking good notes on this particular topic, because I will ONLY accept ONE answer GOD!! If YOUR still NOT sure what more do I have to do, to convince YOU! Listen I’m only trying to help YOU understand ONE thing! EVERYTHING that I have accomplished and battled through in MY life, and be where I’m at today is ONLY because I TRUSTED in God!! Wouldn’t YOU like to see the GREAT opportunities…. that God can start bringing YOU! I DEFINITELY want YOU to experience how AWESOME God can be for YOU! If YOU’VE been wondering why things HAVEN’T been going so GREAT for YOU lately, maybe YOU just found the answer!!
I DEFINITELY know that God want’s ME to make this goal a PRIORITY, to complete SUCCESSFULLY! I’m NOT at all saying that MY other goals, that I have mentioned to YOU aren’t IMPORTANT!! This is ONE area that God and I STRONGLY feel, that OUR society today is lacking in BIG TIME!! I SINCERELY feel that OUR society has put MORE TRUST in political figures, who run OUR country than the ONE who gave them LIFE…. GOD!! I will NOT rest until we’re ALL on the same page, on this ONE…. I promise YOU!!
January 27th, 2007
Hello again! I’m very pleased to see that YOU are EXCITED to hear the topic of discussion in today’s blog! Well, so am I, so why don’t we jump right into it! Well you’ve already read some of my goals behind MY MISSION in previous blogs, so lets discuss another shall we? I sincerely hope that YOU’LL have your ears WIDE OPEN, because I guarantee that you’ll look at your life situations with a COMPLETLEY different point of view! I know ONE thing - it sure has for ME, and I give THANKS to GOD for allowing ME to see MY life in a WHOLE new light!
Are your ears tuned in?
Here we go!
I sincerely feel that I wouldn’t be where I’m at today in my life, if it weren’t for God! He has been by my side when I’ve had to go through INCREDIBLE trials that HE has put in front of me throughout out my life! God would no doubt put MY WILL and FAITH to a HUGE test to see how MUCH I could endure, and trust in HIM! I want to share with you ONE trial that I was faced with, that would COMPLETLEY change my LIFE FOREVER!
It ALL happened on that ONE faithful day, when MY life changed in a blink of an eye! I went from being able to walk and jump with my friends, to having to walk with the aid of crutches! I know what your’re thinking, NINO what happened! Well this was why I wanted you to have your ears WIDE OPEN, because I’m about to tell you!
When I was born my feet were turned in too much, but I could still walk so it was no BIG deal for me. On the other hand, it seemed to be a BIG deal with my doctor! He stated, “We can EASILY correct your feet so they’ll be turned to a normal position.” So after discussing it with my parents, we decided why not, if it’s going to help me walk better!
So on the day of the surgery I prayed to God and asked him to give me strength,and that HE would watch over me and the surgery would be a success! Well I don’t think I prayed hard enough, the doctor ended up cutting the WRONG BONE! As a result it ended up turning my feet out forty-five degrees too much, and saying to HIM, “What does this mean? Am I still going to be able to walk?” Are YOU ready for HIS reponse? “NINO I’m truly sorry, but there is nothing WE can do to correct it. You will be unable to walk on your own EVER without the aid of crutches”!
I thought that this was all a BAD DREAM, and I was going to wake up and everything would be fine! Well that wasn’t the case - it was reality - and MY WHOLE LIFE HAD CHANGED!
The point I’m trying to make is simple: You’ve read ALL my blogs to this POINT (at least I hope YOU have!) In ANY of those blogs, have YOU heard that I ever QUIT, or for that I ever made EXCUSES for what GOD has given me? That’s right - the answer is NO!! GOD has been MY strength through out MY TRIALS, in my life that I have faced even to this VERY day! For that, I THANK GOD for blessing MY LIFE in such a way that HE has allowed me to see through MY disability! Also how HE will use ME and my accomplishments that I’ve acheived with HIS strength, to show YOU and others that the trials we ALL go through will only bring POSITIVE RESULTS when the dust clears!
It’s that time again! I’m going to ask you that same question! How have you been dealing with your TRIALS that God has given YOU? I CERTAINLY hope your’re going to tell me that YOU gave in and QUIT! It is NOT an option that you have ANYMORE, because I will NOT STOP until I teach YOU and everyone else I can how to do it the NINO WAY! In case you’ve forgotten what that is, let ME help you again: NO EXCUSES!!
GOD NEVER gives us more than we can handle in our LIVES, NO matter how TOUGH the trials become!! HE is ALWAYS willing to help us through them, God’s GRACE is ALWAYS sufficient! In the end the trials WILL ONLY make us ALL STRONGER, both physically and mentally! I know for ME they have, and I’ll continue to get STRONGER with each trial that GOD brings my way!
I sincerely hope this has helped YOU in how to go about facing your trials from this day forward. If it hasn’t, then let ME give you some advice, I hope your ears are still tuned in… It’s simple: YOU can’t go through TRIALS ALONE, YOU need GOD in your corner! I know who I have in MY corner! How about YOU??
December 26th, 2006
Well I see that you’re still with me…. congratulations, that tells me that you are a winner and you want to know more about this mission and about how you can succeed despite adversity. FANTASTIC!
In one of my previous blogs about my goals for Ninos Mission, I mentioned that I have many goals I want to accomplish, some for myself and some to help others. I sincerely hope that I will be given more opportunities to inspire and educate others all around the globe about the importance for each of us to set goals and to carry out them out successfully, no matter how big or small they might be!
I feel an area that people tend to struggle with in their lives, which holds them back from achieving the goals they set, is being able to PERSERVERE through difficult situations. In their minds, they believe they can’t handle them or even that it’s futile or impossible. So instead of working through difficulty and adversity, they simply take the easy road out and QUIT!
TO QUIT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE TO ME and it should not be acceptable to you.
Here is the simple way that I have been able to successfully perservere through my own trials and struggles that I have delt with throughout my LIFE:
I can sum it up very easily, it’s my STRONG FAITH AND TRUST IN GOD!
If I didn’t have such a STRONG BELEIF AND FAITH, believe me, there is absoulutley NO WAY I would have been able to acheive what I have been able to acheive or to carry out this mission I have been given.
Imagine what it would be like to PERSEVERE through physical disability if you did not have this kind of belief and faith? Without strong belief and faith do you see how you might not only quit, but you might become bitter and angry? can you see how belief in something greater than yourself could get you through anything, because you realize that somehow - even if you don’t quite understand it at the time - that it is actually a part of a bigger, divine plan?
And just think, GOD gave up his life for all of us so we could have one. I believe the least we can do in return is to PERSEVERE and do something with this life we have been given, no matter how DIFFICULT the journey might be!
December 2nd, 2006
Setting big goals is important. We all need goals, lots of them, and lots of BIG ones. I have many of them, not just for myself and my training and how many reps I do and how much weight I will lift, but also for others, through “Ninos mission.”
“What are my goals I want to achieve through Nino’s Mission?
First, let me say that THE WORLD NEEDS MORE ROLE MODELS. So…
My goal is to be a role model to as many other people across the globe as I can. I’ll also say that even if I know I was a role model and positive influence to just one other person, then my “mission” woluld be worth it!.
My goal is to attract more opportunities to help other people
My goal is to change non-disabled people’s attitudes and perceptions about DISABLED PEOPLE!
Everyone has heard the saying, “DON”T JUDGE A BOOK BY IT’S COVER,” well take if from me, disabled people get judged by their covers! People take one look at me and they assume, “He can’t do this and he can’t do that.” Well, put me on the cover, but don’t judge me! I can do anything I put my mind to.
My goal is to help people who are disabled to change their attitudes and perceptions about what they can do. I’m saddened when I see disabled people who are convinced that they are useless! If someobody ever told me I was “useless” I would just have a GOOD LAUGH! How do you know what you can and can’t do if you don’t even try?
My goal is to encourage everyone - the disabled an non disabled alike - to stop making excuses!
So be prepared, if you judge people by their “covers,” if you don’t even try and see what you can do, or if you make any excuses at all, then the next time you go answer your doorbell it just might just be ME standing in your doorway saying to you, THE EXCUSES STOP HERE!
November 17th, 2006
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