My Path

Over the past few years I have been "looking" for a Church home. I put the word looking in quotation marks because I really wasn't doing much looking but when asked about Church or someone asking me about what Church I was going to I would always respond with the fact that I need to find a Church home, but I really didn't do anything about finding a Church home. Trish invited me to church with her once and I went and liked the church, but there were so many people there and it just didn't feel like home. Melissa invited me to church with her before too, and I always intended to go but never got around to it.
God has always been a part of life, but I have been guilty about forgetting about his presence at times. I have let certain people take me away from God, and I don't want to be the kind of person that turns to God only when things are going bad in my life. I want God to be a part of my life through the good times and the bad.
So about a year ago things seemed to be going pretty well in my life. I moved into a new apartment, I had a great job with a couple of promotions already, but I was still missing God in my life. Those that are reading this know Diana Smith I am sure. Well in March of 2007 I assisted in getting Diana hired at the company that I work for. Diana and I had a little falling out from an incident that occurred during work hours, and we came to the determination that she just wasn't able to work for me. Well I moved on to another department within the same company and gradually me and Diana began talking again and I can say that we are definitely friends. I have no idea why I felt the need to include all of that I did in this paragraph to get to the point that I was trying to make. Diana knew that I wasn't going to Church and every chance she got she would invite me to Church with her. At the time that she started asking me to go with her I believe that she was still going to Dove. I never ended up going to Dove with Diana. Diana then started going to Center Pointe Church in Goshen, OH, and every chance she got she would tell me about it. I know Diana loved going to Dove, but when she started going to Center Pointe she just seemed extra excited about it. I think it was literally every time that I would talk to Diana that she would invite me to Center Pointe. I'm not sure if it was God speaking to me or me trying to shut Diana up so she wouldn't ask me to go anymore, but I finally visited Center Pointe Church with Diana. I invited my roommate and best friend Trish to join me. I absolutely loved it. The people were amazing and so inviting, and the music was awesome, and the message was perfect. Me and Trish were always always busy people always had something going on every day, and minute of the weekend including Sunday. After my first visit to Center Pointe I felt myself looking forward to my next visit. Diana called me up after we left Church and asked me how I liked it and asked me if I would be coming the next Sunday, and I told her that I would.
I still do not know every one's names at Center Pointe, but I am learning. I find myself becoming very disappointed when I have to miss Church because of some other obligation. I went to Church this past Sunday and had somewhere to be right after Church therefore I rushed right out, and from what I read in Pastor Ray's blog I missed God's presence after the service.
Pastor Ray's message has a way of speaking just to me every Sunday, and I'm sure that other's feel the same way. I feel myself at times so in tuned to his message that I feel like I should be sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for what he will say next.
I am definitely thankful that God worked through Diana to get me to visit Center Pointe.