This morning as I was taking a shower and singing rather off key, I began to think about the past. Like, when I asked my wife to marry me or when I promised I would be hers after just six months of dating. It seems like it was just yesterday that all this stuff happened. It seems like just last year that I jumped off my parents front porch and blow out my knee, playing in a rock band that opened for Rachel Lampa, or giving my life to Christ when I was eleven. There are so many things we just simply forget as time passes. Time seems to just run away with us and we're left standing here with little more than a fading memory of what life used to be like. Why couldn't we stay young forever. I once made that commitment, to stay young forever. I didn't want to grow up, I wanted to stay as I was. I had allot of friends who thought I was pretty cool(boy did I have them fooled) and with it, but really I had nothing. I wasn't cool, I didn't have it all together. At that time in my life I made some of the worst decisions of my life. I dated a girl I didn't even really want to date, I got drunk for the first time, I lost all my friends and I quit my job of ten years. How could I be so dumb to all of these things.

The past is a good reminder isn't it. I look back now and I see that allot of good came from these bad decisions. After I broke up with the girl i never really liked in the first place, I fell in love with my wife, I stopped drinking, and gained some pretty darn good friends. I found a job at a book store where I am now a manager and the music buyer for three stores. God totally turned this life of mine in the right direction with my wrong decisions. He took what I thought was stupid and made something great out of it. My life will never be the same.

I encourage you to take a look at your past and see how far you have come. The God who made something from nothing can certainly make something out of you. It may hurt while He is building who you are, but when He is through, you will be an amazing person.