Over the past ten years, I've attended at least one Samson Society meeting a week. August 2014 at First Baptist Church Jackson (Summit Counseling suite) was when that first meeting (involving Rob) occurred. I had met with Mr. Don Waller (facilitator of said meeting) on one occasion, and from there, he ushered me into his group (which at the time was the only Samson Society meeting in Mississippi, as far as we knew).
Some veteran Jackson Mississippi Samson guys' musings, recommended resources, and Samson Society news / updates (all written by 100% Grade A - Human Intelligence)
Weekly meetings available to you are as follows:
Tuesday at 6:30 PM, Truitt Baptist Church - Pearl. Call Matt Flint at (601) 260-8518 or email him at matthewflint.makes@gmail.com.
Wednesday at 6:00 PM, First Baptist Church Jackson - Summit Counseling Suite - 431 North State St. Jackson. Call Don Waller at 601-946-1290 or email him at don@wallerbros.com.
Monday at 6:30 PM , Vertical Church - 521 Gluckstadt Road Madison, MS 39110. Mr. Roane Hunter, facilitator, LifeWorks Counseling.
Wednesday at 7:00 PM, Crossgates Baptist Church. Brandon Reach out to Matthew Lehman at (601)-214-4077 for further info.
Sunday night at 6:00 PM, Grace Crossing Baptist Church - 598 Yandell Rd. Canton. Call Joe McCalman at 601-201-5608 or email him at cookandnoonie@gmail.com.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
It's Been Ten Years Since I First Stepped Foot Into A Samson Society Meeting!
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Compromises Made To Recovery Work Add Up Over Time / Place = Expected Behavior
My middle daughter and I were in AR last week and whilst there, we had dinner at a memorable Hot Springs sports bar. The restaurant was tucked in the corner of a strip shopping center adjacent to our hotel which made it too convenient to not pass up.
Monday, April 15, 2024
The Night He Got Jumped By His Former Youth Pastor / It Took Two To Tango / Was This An Isolated Incident? - Stories That Resonate
It is not getting any easier admitting to my neediness. Over the past quarter (& then some), my wife has been working 12-hour days (home office), and because she's a night owl, most of her workday has been well past 5 PM. As such, a typical evening (throughout the workday and weekend) consisted of tiptoeing in order to not disturb her grind. And it was my privilege to step up in this regard.
Since she became physically disabled due to her May 2020 stroke, a lot of additional housework naturally fell on my shoulders. Thanks be to God we live in a manageably scaled home (with a small yard)! Too, only having one additional kidlet (of three total) at home (who's the epitome of obedience and cooperation) to feed / tend to, helps tremendously.
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Mutilated Genitalia (Certification Of Merit?)
Things have changed within the "mainstream" ("higher-end" production value) gay porn landscape.
Monday, February 19, 2024
When Rob's Reality Intersects With Normal Hetero-Masculine Reality (Outside Of The Controlled Environment Of Samson Society)
Computational failure. That's what it feels like.
Imagine observing an automobile unsuspectingly being driven along a nondescript street, and suddenly, it begins to fly. Soaring higher and higher into the sky as if by some unseen nonrational force that affects nothing else around it.
Friday, January 26, 2024
Jesus January's Premature Conclusion
If you look back at my Mid-January Update post, everything that's stated there still holds true today, therefore I've decided to prematurely conclude this challenge, a week or so in advance of the 31st.
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Jesus January - Mid Month Update
Back in December, we had an all-together lunch with some friends whose daughter and son are longstanding friends (former schoolmates) of our children. Christmas was around the corner, therefore everyone was in the holiday spirit, anticipating the annual celebration with all its traditions and (inevitable) headaches. This couple had surprisingly (to us) been visiting our church, and as such, once we realized this, saw fit to make a concerted effort to recognize this exciting move via breaking bread together.
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Hold The Line For The Man Who Can't Hold It Himself (It Takes Two To Tango).
A sizeable amount of my time each December goes to gifting clients with cookies and calendars out of appreciation for their patronage. And I hand deliver many of these whilst road-tripping my way through various regions of the state of Mississippi. It's an exhausting affair - both physically & emotionally, but an expected wrapping up of the year as a business owner (that was started by my parents, well in advance of me becoming affiliated with their company).
Saturday, November 25, 2023
Healthily Spotlighting The Intense Pleasure Of Youthful Masturbation
Friends of ours have an adolescent (homeschooled) son who's freaking them out via his interest in (compulsiveness regarding?) women's shoes.
How did this come about?
They've unintentionally barged in on him wearing mom's stylish dress shoes (buck naked) whilst lying down on his bed, and they've taken note of his Internet search history (images of stylish women's shoes).
This boy is the only biological child of this couple. He does have an older half-sister, but she's college-age and therefore out of the house throughout most of the day.
Their son isn't effeminate, but he has had a lot of trouble (sitting still / becoming distracted) excelling within a traditional (school) learning environment. Hence, he's spent A LOT of his time under his mother's wing, at home, while his peers were being educated within a classroom setting.
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Profound Sensitivity Whilst At "The Beach". (Childhood Past Overlapping With Present Experience.) Unintentionally Exhuming Teenage Trauma.
I requested of my parents that we take a beach vacation when I was a sophomore in high school. At the time, I was around the age of 16 (I'm an only child). My parents, concurrently, were in their mid-30s. The year would have been 1988. It's important to know that we'd never "beached trip" prior, though we had visited the Mississippi Gulf Coast (which has a less than picturesque beach).
Monday, July 3, 2023
(No Longer In) Bondage To The Thrust
I never would have known my local Samson friend was so spellbound by hot women 'till we had (a repeat) restaurant lunch. As such, a troupe of high school girls traipsed in, and eventually sat adjacent to us. These were pristine, rich, white girls wearing the latest designer clothes / hairstyles. There was 6-8 of them, and they were all bubbly and giggly as they carried their sizable pocket computers like individual bars of gold. These girls were undoubtedly students at the across-the-highway private academy, and they were there at this restaurant on "lunch break" (having driven their parents' BMWs and Mercedes-Benz across the way). Likely many of them came from heady stock - CPAs, surgeons & prominent business owners, having been expectedly pampered throughout their short lives.
At the time, this friend was my Silas 3.0, and the tension he was experiencing due to the "availableness" of this troupe was impossible to miss. I remember feeling powerless and a bit annoyed but altogether grateful as well that I wasn't in his intensive heterosexual shoes.
All in all, I vividly recall him being visibly distraught as he forced himself to not glance their way. It seemingly took all his strength in order to NOT capture / captivate / become spellbound by their sexual prowess. As an aside, him wearing his work uniform likely only added to the intensity of this moment, serving as a reminder of his past, pre-conversion (Christianity) hedonism with many a similar lay.
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
A Wife's (Marital) Sexual Charms / Scorecard = A Husband's Sexual Faithfulness To His Marriage...!?!
Is the wife in anyway responsible for her husband's faithfulness within their marriage? That's the ultimate question as it pertains to the title of this post.
Monday, March 20, 2023
"Momma's Been Married Five Times."
A few weekends back, I had lunch with a friend from church as an embarrassingly tardy follow-up. He's one of those (surprisingly cool) middle-aged men who's a contrarian (taking his own upbringing into consideration) relative to his marriage / rearing of his own children.
When he and I dined together initially (pre-pandemic - 2019? - I honestly can't recall exactly), I vaguely remember him chatting a fair amount about his devout Christian mother. He likely mentioned (the embarrassing truth) her marital track record then, but it must have blown past Rob without registering. More than likely, I simply had forgotten about this curiosity. Or perhaps, I felt a pity overflow (for him), and therefore simply refused to allow it to stick. Considering this latter assumption, I cannot underestimate the fact that today, he presents himself as a really nice guy who simply found himself (as a boy) within the line of fire as a result of his mother's issues.
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