Thy Will Be Done: Enjoy the thrill of true joy and happiness

By James Kuczykowski

James Kuczykowski was born to John Joseph and Dorothy Kuczykowski in May of 1961. In early childhood, he was severely cross-eyed and stuttered profusely, so his early childhood was met with the older children in his neighborhood laughing at him and calling him names.

He was raised in a Roman Catholic environment and attended Catholic schools all his life. While in high school at Steubenville Catholic Central (1976-1979), James says of himself he was a multipositional athlete on the football team. He jokes that he played end, guard, and tackle. He says, "I sat on the end of the bench, was given charge to guard the water bottles and tackle anyone who came near the water tray."

In November of 1980, the day after Thanksgiving, he started his short career in the US Air Force.

After Basic Training and Technical Training School, his duty assignments included Hancock Field in North Syracuse, New York; Mangil-san Radar Station at Mangil-san, South Korea; and Tyndall Air Force Base at Panama City, Florida. He was awarded an honorable discharge in September of 1984.

It was at Hancock Field where he met Tela Baxter, an Air Force woman who he thought was the most beautiful woman he ever saw. James and Tela became good friends and was married in June of 1982.

Due to circumstances beyond their control though, James and Tela lived separate lives but did stay legally married for thirty-eight years until June 25th 2022.

While serving in the US Air Force, James fell in love with the alcohol drinking crowd and strayed far from his Christian upbringing. His alcohol drinking continually escalated until the day when he called an old friend, "The Coalminer," and asked this old friend to help him get sober.

And so on December 3, 1996, James K. entered his first Anonymous twelve-step fellowship and continues to attend the meetings because he treasures the friendship and laughter.

After receiving an honorable discharge from the US Air Force, James returned to his hometown and attended Jefferson Technical College and earned an associate degree in applied business, data processing, in June 1987.

The economy was not very good at this time in the United States, so James struggled with part-time jobs for a couple of years before being hired as a telemarketing salesman for Snyder Distributing. That position led to employment with another Snyder firm, Bulldog Distributing, which led to an international sales position with Bulldog Security.

James, aka "Jim Kuz," worked with the Snyder family for twelve years before starting a landscaping and lawn-cutting concern. As is mentioned in this book, James is a stroke survivor and lives a reasonably joyful life.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781639617524

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Thy Will Be Done

Enjoy the thrill of true joy and happiness

James Kuczykowski

ISBN 978-1-63961-751-7 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63961-752-4 (digital)

Copyright © 2022 by James Kuczykowski

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods without the prior written permission of the publisher. For permission requests, solicit the publisher via the address below.

Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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All Scripture quotations in this book are taken from the Catholic translation of the New American Bible, St. Joseph Edition.

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 1

God’s Will Is Love

Father, if thou art willing, remove this cup from me; yet not my will but thine be done.

—Luke 22:42

From this prayer of Jesus Christ in the garden of Gethsemane on the eve of his passion and death on a cross, humanity can arrive at no other conclusion than there is nothing greater than God’s will for man.

Every word spoken by Jesus Christ has no other source than love and has no other purpose than to express his love. It’s all about love.

Most people I know and perhaps even you, dear reader, say many times each day the words Thy will be done in prayer; but do we honestly desire and trust in God’s will above ours? In my own life, from the moment I started to sincerely and earnestly pray for God’s will above my own, a spirit of peace and joy began to penetrate my soul, and so I would like in this book to share this joy and help others enter it.

The Father’s loving will for all mankind, in general, can be summed up with just one Word. That one Word has the name of Jesus Christ, God Incarnate.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that whosoever believes in him may not perish, but might have eternal life. (John 3:16)

In an act of unmerited love, humanity is given by God our Savior and our loving Redeemer, whom the passage of John 3:16 speaks of, who paid a debt He did not owe because you and I owed a debt we could not pay.

John 3:16 is without any doubt the most popular Gospel verse known, but I like to focus on the verse that follows: For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him(John 3:17).

This is the good news that Jesus