An Update.

Well hello there friends out there in the in the blogger world. I have not written in a good while and i am in my philosophy class so i figured what better way to kill time than to write in my blog.

ECU is going good. School is hard, and boreing, and long, and  strenuous. But hey its going to help me in the long run so i cant complain. LOL. Im sure that you have seen the pirates with two huge victories on the football field this year. It just sucks that we then loose to teams like NC state, and Houston. So pretty much the season is a huge let down. Its ok though i am a pirate for life. So ECU pride all the way. BLEED PURPLE AND GOLD. 

Young life is going good. A couple of times things have been rough. But hey challanges are only going to make us better. It is hard getting out to the school, trying to get kids to sign up for camp, getting kids to come to club. There is just so much stuff that you have to do and it wears you down. But when you get those kids that come up and give you a hug and say it is so good to see you it is all worth it. 

Friends are awesome. I keep building stronger bonds with people i know that are going to be in my life forever. It is so awesome having deep relationships and being able to talk about things that matter. Being able to get together and talk about God, and talk about our troubles, and hardships. But to also get together and lift each other up. A group of my guy friends meet once a week and pray for each other, encourge each other, talk about our trials, our goals, and our motivs. It is so awesome. God is so great and having friends that want to lift his name up with you is so awesome. 

Things with Heather are great. We are always growing together, and growing closer to God. Having a girl in my life that loves the Lord more than she will ever love me is such a blessing. I see God in her life every day and it is so great. The more i am with her the more i realize that i am not attracted to her, but i am attracted to the presence of God in her. Having someone who can encourge you and pray for you and share in converstaions with you about the Lord is such a blessing and i thank God every day for Heather. 

God is great. Loving him is the best thing ever. He has blessed me so much and continues to bless me daily. I am not worthy to be his servent, i am not worthy to do his work but he allows me to do that. He allows me to call myself a christian and to call my self a follower of Jesus. By keeping him at the forefront of my life he has blessed me in so many way. I am not saying that my life has been a cake walk. Actually it has become alot harder the more and more i give to Jesus. The more i give to him the more he challanges me. He keeps telling me.... Michael you are doing great, but you can be better so here is another challange. I love that. I love that he is challenging me every day. It is hard, and sometimes i get frustrated. But i have to know that i am going to be better because of it. 

Enjoy your life, and live it in a way that is pleasing to your Lord. 

Love you guys. 

A Journey

It has been two months since heather and I started to date. Most people see two months as not a big deal. To me every day is a big deal. Every day i am learning more about heather on a deeper level. She is learning about me on a deeper level. The journy has been great so far and i have learned alot about relationships, life, and God. 

Since i have started dating heather i have had rely on God more and more. I love that. Our relationship challanges us to be better people, and to be better christians. It is so great that we are being challanged and that it is not necessarily something that does not call us to something higher. Being a christian is hard for sure. But the walk of being in a christian reltionship is even harder. Being a young life leader, a full time student, a good friend, a good boy friend, and a devote christian is hard. There is nothing easy about it. But i have leanred that the best things in life are stuff you have to be challanged about, and stuff that you have to fight for. If things come easy and you dotn have to work for them then what is the point. Where is the reward. The great thing about being a christian is that there is always something to work on. There is always some way you can better yourself. Sometimes its frustrating. But i am glad its like that. Because i will never get tired of feeling the reward for something i have worked so hard to achieve. 

God is great and has blessed me so much. I see him every day more and more. Friends, family, and even random people i meet. I see God in some way. I am so thankful for heather and I i have grown so much in Christ because of the way she has challanged me. I see Working through her all the time, and she has helped me in so many ways. My journey as a christian is never easy but it has never been more fullfilling and rewarding and i am excited to see where it is going to go in the future.