The Time Has Come

As many of you probably know, i will be leaving for Ireland on Sunday. previous to my departure i have the honor to be a groomsman in my cousins wedding, which i am really looking forward to. All summer its sorta seemed like this trip was really far away and its hard to believe its already here!! im really excited and am looking forward to see how God will use our team.

So many times when i talk to people about Christ i think of good things to say afterwards...i look back and kick myself thinking "AHH if only i had thought of these things to say DURING the conversation..." but God is sovereign, and i am sure he worked though my non-elegant conversations. All that to say is Pray for me (and the rest of the team) that I will not rely on my own wisdom, or knowledge for what to say when ministering... and that God would just come and use me and the whole team to do awesome things for his kingdom!

This is probably the last thing i will write til after the trip, but we will be updating our team blog, which the link is on the sidebar... or right here N. Ireland Team 08 blog

Brother in Christ
Michael

Ephesians 3

14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family [3] in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Hancock and Rainbows

My Rating:4/5


so Today i went and saw Hancock with Wil Smith. I thought it was really good. It was funny, entertaining and it kept my attention the whole time, despite the annoying little girls sitting right in front of me an my sisters.

There is kind of an abrupt plot twist in the middle of the movie that i totally called! but i won't ruin it for you people who haven't seen it. Its not a MUST SEE... i probably could have waited tol the dvd, but i feel like i got my 5 dollars worth.


Now the second part of this very spontaneous, bored inspired blog post is later the same evening when there was a quick rain burst. afterward i think we saw the fullest double rainbow i have seen in my life! in the picture the second rainbow has already started to fade because i couldn't find the camera but still...

Fourth of July

so yesterday was july 4th!! this was the first july fourth that i have spent up at our cabin in years, so it was very enjoyable. the first thing of note that happened was when i went out to the dock to just relax in the sun and listen to some tunes, i set my ipod down to straighten my towel. first mistake: never set an ipod down on a dock... yep thats right my ipod fell in the water. i jumped in the water and grabbed my ipod, miraculously it still worked!! the ipod that survived an entire winter in the snow also is tough enough to survive under water!! unfortunately i think that the water just hadn't soaked in all the way, because an hour later it died... R.I.P. i pod.... RIP....

the next exciting thing that happened was that we went out on our boat to watch the fireworks. we drove to spicer and turned off the boat.. layed down and enjoyed the nice summer breeze and realized how much nicer this was than parking 2 miles away and battling crowds in Minneapolis. after the show however we tried to start our boat.... nothing. we tried again.... nothing again. (this has happened before last year with gabby kaija aaron and ian) so here we are stranded in the middle of the night in the middle of a lake filled with zooming boats everywhere. fortunatley we found some nice people to tow us. so there it is... a very memorable fourth of july :-)

Michael

PS

it turns out that the only thing wrong with the boat was that the emergency safety button got switched... probably when emma was pretending to drive the boat....