God

DNow 2010- Switch (leader for a group of amazing middle school boys)

Have you ever been really excited? So excited you wanted to smile bigger than your face would allow? So excited you wanted to squeeze the stuffing out of your pillow?

I can remember the night before vacation one year I had that feeling. Butterflies were in my stomach, I couldn't sleep because I couldn't stop smiling and I kept bouncing up and down in my bed because I was so excited about going to the beach.

That's how I felt this whole weekend. Every time I closed my eyes to talk one on one to my God I felt like shouting and jumping. I felt like finding every pillow in the house and squeezing it so hard that it would no longer serve it's purpose. I felt like crying because I was so happy. I have never felt anything better than I felt then. I have never felt so fulfilled, I have never felt so alive and I have never felt so much joy in my whole entire life.

This weekend God showed me that I will never get anything from this world that will fill me up as much as he will. But I didn't just see it in writing; I felt it in my heart and soul.

I believe that i have come into contact with God. I believe that I've felt God's presence around me. But now I can truly say that God consumed me and I felt his presence within me.

God Changed a Life

Mine. (and probably many others)

I finally realized that my life in the ministry does not start when I graduate from seminary... My life in the ministry starts now. My studies of God's word starts now. My life as a mentor starts now. My life as a teacher starts now. My life as a counselor starts now. My life as an EXAMPLE starts now.

I need to stop being an idiot. I need to stop waiting until after seminary. I need to start my life as a minister... NOW.

I'm not talking about going and applying at different churches. I'm talking about being a minister to my friends, being a minister to my classmates, being a minister to the jerk in the left lane going the speed limit down 75, and being a minister to the people a pass every day, walking down the sidewalks of Kennesaw State University.

I am a minister; because God said so.