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Name: Mike
Country: United States
State: Indiana
Metro: Warsaw
Birthday: 6/2/1981
Gender: Male
Interests: Welcome to all things Chicago, where if it's not Chicago IT'S CRAP!
Expertise: QMRP. Social Worker. Bible-thumper. :)
Occupation: Operations
Industry: Nonprofit
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AIM:  bibstud
Member Since:
4/24/2003
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| It is easy sometimesTo forget that God is the giver of blessings. I have heard it's easy to follow God when life is good, but I seem to get it mixed up. Whenever I have a rough stretch, like I did early in the year, that's the time I tend to look to God. However, when the blessings are rolling in, that's when I seem to forget where they come from. Looking back over the past few months, I know there were some hard times early in the year, but the Lord has seen fit to relieve me and bring me up to a higher place. I know I don't deserve it. At all. I don't deserve to have great hours at work. I don't deserve to be getting back in shape. I don't deserve Karis. But God loves us and He gives in His timing. There have been a lot of lessons learned in the past 8 months, and all of them have made me a better person, I know. So even the hard times I had had a purpose. I love the Lord and I want to continue to follow Him. I want to be the man who follows His Lord. I am praying that I will be the kind of man who leads Karis with unconditional love and supports her with unresting delight. I want to be unrelenting in my pursuit of knowing Him and as unrelenting in my pursuit of Karis. To treat her as she deserves and to cultivate our friendship in a loving and respectful way. | | |
| I cannot wait!...until Karis gets back from Texas. :) I hope she's having a good time, but selfishly, I'd rather be with her.
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| I don't know if I mentioned this..but I've lost over 100 pounds now...since September. | | |
| What I want in life.Of course I want what every man wants in life. I want to be an international spy. I want to have excitement. I want to lead a country and make war against evil nations. I want to be the popular guy, the one everyone wants to hang with all the time. I want to make a name for myself, invent something, destroy something, get something dirty, take something apart, put it back together. I want to be a physician, a counselor, a philosopher, a theologian. I want to skydive and not be afraid of heights. I want to whitewater raft, and travel to the pyramids in Egypt. I want to see Alaska and go down to South America. In short, I want to be "The Most Interesting Man in the World" from those Dos Equis commercials.
But joking aside..what I would like most is to be simply me. Strive to be excellent in my work. Someday be the kind of husband that his wife longs for as much after 50 years as she did they day they married. The kind of dad his kids respect and cherish. I want to be a friend of God and fear nothing as long as He is by my side. I want to gain knowledge and wisdom through any medium the Lord chooses. I want to be a friend who is known for his faithfulness, his confidentiality, his perspective, and his kindness. This is who I really want to be.
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| I've got the runs....Actually, I'm referring to the fact that yesterday I ran my second 5K this summer (and in my life). The one in South Bend left me a little bit disappointed with my performance. This one here in Warsaw, I did quite a bit better, posting a time of 30:34! Just a bit shy of my original 30 min. goal. I'm still a bit disappointed as I let some mental frustration creep in toward the end of the race that probably cost me those other 35 seconds, but still....nice. More to follow, but it's church-time. P.S. Karis is amazing. | | |
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