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When remembering isn't enough.

Boy that girl has gone bad we don't know what she's up to lately maybe we should check in with her parents and find out.. well you've heard the story before. I used to stay up very late and watch those really funny infomercials I kind of miss that because my sleeping habits became somewhat regular as I grew older. I used to be a night person I remember one time when I was The skateboarder I stayed up really late one night and went it was probably about 12 or maybe even three in the morning maybe not that late, and went on a long skateboarding journey I believe down ninth line to steels sort of close to where we moved to somewhat recently and skateboarded at night where the when there was no cars on the road. It was almost like a religious experience I really felt the presence of God when I was doing this skateboarding late at night as a teenager. I had many more such religious experiences when I was growing up doing things that I wouldn't necessarily do unless I was forced to do them. A lot of joy and mystery came from The times when I first started to sing and then the times after that. Although I've sort of blocked some  memories out from the times when I was in college being that there were things done there that I'd rather not talk about on this blog, nothing illegal not to worry, but I equated my joy with things like hockey and skateboarding, and even singing with the presence of God. Now that I'm a born-again Christian I know the difference between having a true religious experience of having something that well let's just say brings you closer to God it a different way.

It's not to say that when I was younger the veil between heaven and earth was sort of touched upon in my own life in the singing skateboarding in hockey things that I was doing when I was a kid, and even younger because I feel that kids have a sensitivity to spiritual things when most people who are older who has maybe not yet made a commitment to those things may not have. It is a tragedy to go through life, and come to the end of it not knowing who you are or who the God is who made you. Humans have only one life to live, and it we were not blessed to find the presence of God in a real way here on earth, then who's to say that you're going to get a second chance after death? That wouldn't be fair right because the veil between life and death is exactly that s veil. We don't know exactly what happens after person dies but we do know that if you are found in Christ when you're alive that you'll be found in Christ after your death. To be in Christ means that you've been born again that you confess Jesus as Lord and Savior and have received him as such. But all those good memories that I have as a kid skateboarding late at night or just those memories, my memories are part of my soul and they'll be with me forever but what's most important is, that when I was 21 I found a personal relationship with Jesus Christ in my life. The Bible says all who call upon the name of the Lord will be saved and I truly believe that God save me at that point in time when I called upon his name and his son Jesus Christ to save me. This is Mike.

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