WOW!!!

I wish that I had something all deep and spiritual for you but I just wanted to share my evening with you real quick....seriously I'll make it quick.

Yesterday I decided that I needed to breathe life back into my dirt bike after it had been laying unused and inoperable in my garage for something close to nine months. Humans are created in this time and I couldn't get my bike going!!! So I pulled the carb and got it all tuned in and cleaned then threw some gas into it and she started right up. Steve called me up today and we decided to go for a ride tonight after work. It was a beautiful evening when we left. Good temperature, a bit cloudy, two running bikes and two very willing riders. We gassed up and then took off to an undisclosed location (we weren't supposed to be there but couldn't resist the temptation) to stretch the legs of our bikes. We took off up the mountain slippin' and sliding on the wet earth and slippery rocks. We wheelied and jumped our way up the mountain becoming more and more aware of the extemely ominous clouds to the west that were rapidly aproaching. These clouds weren't the usual greyish clouds, oh no they were BLACK with curtain under them that you couldn't see through at all. Then it got interesting, lightning! It was beautiful....and getting closer as we got closer to the top of the mountain. How could this ever go wrong?

The rain hit hard and fast. A good wind kept it company and the easy rumbles of thunder had turned into bone shuddering claps. We decided that we should probably head back down the mountain to we turned tail and fled the elevations that brought us closer to the lightning. It was a slippery ride down but my friends it was beautiful. Redding was below us, lightning hitting all around us, our bikes below us slipping all over the trail and God was with us. He really went all out with tonights show. This was a fantastic show of might, creativity, beauty and sound. Every sense was alive!!!

Father thank you for blessing me with this life that I take for granted far to often. Thank you for showing me such an awesome side of you tonight . Thank you for my friend Steve, Father. I pray for him and his family and that they find you and become passionate and in love with you Father. Thank you Father. Amen!

A Changed Heart

Tonight was a grand night....today was a grand day....this sure is a grand life. Lately I've been struggling a bit with my relationship with God. It hasn't been anything severe or terribly rough it was just another struggle and place to grow in. That being said, that is what I have been working on. I have increased prayer and made sure that it wasn't just empty recitals of chosen words that have a nice ring to them. This is an easy trap to fall into and one that I honestly feel is straight from the depths of hell. I'm sorry my friends, I'm getting a bit side tracked.

Tonight I worshipped God with Jeremy Riddle. It was a small venue, only a couple hundred people or so. It was great to raise my hands in worship to our Father with such a talented man of God. It was one of those times where it seemed like everything that happened was just for me. Every song spoke to me, the things that the pastor spoke about were for me and God was at the center of it all and He had a special evening planned out just for me. There was even more to it than just that. This little shindig took place at a church that I went to for a short while before my passionate pursuit of God.

I remember sitting in that church wishing that I had slept in a bit longer so that I wouldn't have to listen to the stupid worship. Tonight my arms were outstretched in worship, my heart and soul open to His will in my life. I used to stand there while everybody worshipped just looking from one person to another and wondering what there sins were. I remember seeing nothing but sinners and cowards. Tonight I stood next to my brothers and sisters, Gods servants, His children, brave men, women, and children who would stand for God and what they know is right against all else. What an honor it was to stand there worshipping God with these people.

Thank you God for always being there for me especialy when I had only turned my back to you and fought your existence. Thank you Father for bringing me to that place tonight. Father thank you for this life!!! I pray that you continue to do great things in my heart and soul, I pray that you take my heart and make it your own. Thank you Father. Amen!!!