Hello World, my name is Ralph Saint Albord and like many of you, I’m just a regular person trying to find my purpose in this crazy world. Let me start by explaining what a Way/ve is and why I Chose to write it this way. A Way/ve is a dream, passion or goal that you’ve always wanted to chase and/or accomplish, but not by following a plan that worked for someone else. These dreams you have will be done your way, you’ll be riding your own wave🌊.

In my life, I’ve had a lot of dreams and passions and not many of them have come to fruition. I could say it was because I didn’t have the support I needed, no one pushed me to be great… At the end of the day, it was ultimately my lack of ambition and laziness that kept me from pursuing my goals. That was my teenage years in a nutshell, I was just too nonchalant about the gifts God had bestowed on me. I guess I just expected things to work out simply because I was talented. Life put an end to that way of thinking real quick. Being able to sing, draw, write poetry, play sports, all these things came to me easily, so I took them for granted and didn’t even realize it at the time. I was 24 years old when I became a husband and it made me realize that I had to change some things in order to provide for my new wife, so I left some dreams of mine behind. My wife always told me to chase my dreams, because she was going to chase hers no matter what but I couldn’t understand how to do that and work full-time, so I pushed her to achieve her dreams then when the time came I would do the same. Parenthood soon became a factor and I felt like the pressure was on to be the ultimate family man not realizing I let all my goals go and that they were dying.

At the end of 2018 I had reached a tipping point with my work and my life and I made some truly life altering decisions. I up and quit my job with no contingency plan and I was scared to death, because now I had to step out on faith. My faith in God at that point was at the lowest it has ever been in my life and I felt like such a failure. I took about a week to work out a plan for the future, which my wife put to bed immediately and suggested I go back to school like we planned all those years ago. This was the push I needed to find my footing, so I decided to try my hand at Software Engineering. Let me tell you that after a whole year of ups and down that I really enjoy it though it’s difficult. This new path is only one way/ve for me and it’s not yet over, because those goals, passions and dreams didn’t die, I just had to open my eyes and reach for them. They are attainable and with renewed faith and vigor anything is possible. 2019 started a significant change in my life and I’ve embraced that change wholeheartedly. Riding this way/ve of change has made my and my family’s life better simply because I’m happy and following Christ.

Thank you for spending a little time to read this blog, I truly appreciate you. God bless and don’t forget to keep “Chasing God’s Way/ve.”