Introduction

STEVEN

 
 

Riding with Jesus is a weekly article or articles written by Steven and Jessica about riding bikes, bikers, rides, events, gear and most importantly Jesus. We hope that these articles will be fun to read, informative and most of all life changing.

These articles will not necessarily be about the writers but this seems like as good a time as any to get acquainted. My name is Steven I began riding in about 1971 on a Toro 80, similar to a Suzuki JR80. I had been liberated, freedom was mine as I sped around the couple of acres that was my world. I was hooked, the wind in my face, the mud in my mouth, the bloody elbows and knees, the wide open space, and freedom to go my own way, and of course that first muffler burn. I was a born biker.

Everyone is looking for something in life, not knowing just what that is, we are lost. We all want to be "free" but it seems like nothing ever really gives us true freedom. The next year I graduated to a Hodaka 100 dual purpose and my world greatly expanded along with my riding skill and I found some unsanctioned cross country racing similar to the hare scrambles of today. This brought a different and greater kind of freedom yet there was still that sense of not being free.

My mind was always on the open road and I devoured every motorcycle article I could find. Then I found it, that something that I knew would make everything right, Jesus Christ! I was raised in church but for the most part it was far from awe inspiring yet that Sunday this voice shouting in my head said that if I did not accept Jesus as my Savior there might not be another chance! Before I knew it I was down front telling that preacher that I needed Jesus Christ and I believed on Him as my Savior. That was were real freedom was found, but I didn't realize it at the time.

I tested and received my motorcycle endorsement on that Hodaka, with the chrome tank fenders and red frame, on the Court House square in Grant County, Arkansas on October 1975, now I was a real biker! Lol! With that came a Benelli 250 Street Trail and there was no looking back. My understanding of and love of bikes grew by leaps and bounds while my relationship with Jesus didn't go anywhere, oh I was a born again believer, but I was a still birth, no one helped me get passed the new believer stage. I am not blaming anyone I made my choices, I was a babe and didn't know how to take care of myself. You guessed it I began to dabble in drugs and slid further from Jesus every day. Freedom isn't a place it's a person that person is Jesus Christ, this I found out way on down the road.

 
 

See you at the next stop!

 
 

JESSICA

 
 

My name is Jessica I have been riding bikes for 2 years. I really feel that I was born to be a biker. My path of life did not go as I had planned and I always was searching for the next big thrill. During my teen years that adrenaline came in Basketball. I was really good and I wanted to be the best. After my college years I really felt that marriage was the next big adventure. So I got married. You know it did not matter to me that I knew he was the wrong man I just wanted to change this bad boy into a husband and father. Well as children started coming into my life the adventure of marriage took a back seat and motherhood was my life. In all this I never gave much thought to God and my relationship with him. In 2003 I had a face off with God over my drug abuse and my messed up life. He told me that my life's adventure was going to be with him and it was going to be hard. Shortly afterward I found myself sitting alone, a divorced, single mom with 2 children that I barely knew and no real idea of the direction my life would take. Then God brought Steven Hudson into my life and eventually a Suzuki Volusia 800. The first ride I took I knew that I had found a love that I just can't describe. Because of my injuries to my body I am unable to drive my own bike, but that makes me no less of a biker. I love working on our bike and seeing other bikes and I love traveling on the bike. Before I met Steve I had never been to but one state park and had not traveled much out of the state of Arkansas. In two years we have visited so many great places and spent so many special times together and with other biker friends. I love bikers and bikes and now with Steve I feel that I am enjoying both and serving God at the same time. Which is what I have always wanted to do.