its been awhile

Its been a long time since i blogged and there has been so much going on in my life i hardly know where to begin!!

First off, I am in a strange and new place in my walk. i have seen and been apart of sooo many great things, from being apart of Love Chapel Hill church, to meeting and getting to know this great and amazing girl!! God has truly blessed me, but i still seem to be troubled.... i cant really explain it but there is this overwhelming feeling that is growing in me that i cant get rid of. Its this feeling like there is something more that i have to do, but i don't know what. I think it starts with being fully God's. You see i have lived my life on my terms and the way that i wanted it to go. I have tried to be the "good guy" all of my life, but that's not what God wants from me; He wants me to be His. from the outside the change that is needing to be made is minuscule, but the inside work that needs to be done is huge! God make me yours!

My friends and family that read this please pray for me. i am setting on the edge of something marvelous, i just need to jump and trust God will be there to catch me

an uncertain future

The summer is coming to an end I am happy, it's wired!!? I think it has allot to do with how great this summer has been!! God has reviled soo much to me this summer and given me such great gifts that i truly am speechless before him!! But one of the greatest things i have learned this summer is that the blessings and lessons that God brings us threw, are not for us alone! they are to be shared and given away. i think Paul said it best in the first chapter of Romans when he say i am in debt to the world with what God has given me ( nick translation, lol). You see we have been designed to be a relation people. To cimmunicate and to grow close to each other with what we know and have experienced, and what i have expierienced this summer is and was and will forever be Amazing!! There is this newness to the story i have herd all my life. there are new tears and new joys that i thought were long lost! God has blessed me with His joy, and His vission for me and i am overwhelmed!! Praise God!!
So with all this in mind, as the summer comes to an end, i am not worried about where i will be or who i will be around, but what i do know is that wherever i am, Gods name, Love, and Joy will be shown there, because i am in debt to everyone i meet to show this renewed and amaingly awesome Love that has been shown to me.

The end to a Glorious begining

I have been truly amazed by the greatness of God and all his splendor!! his Love is so vast and so far beyond me or anything I could ever express or even experiences in this life!!!...but My Life will be spent trying to experience this great love as much as i can!! God is Love! Not just apart of Love or a form of it, but he is love. without God in the picture there would be no Love. When a father looks at his daughter with a love he only knows, God is there. When someone helps a homeless person, simply by buying them some water, God is there. When you are in your room and everything seems to be going wrong, but there is this calm that sets itself over you, God is there. Gods Love is not just found in Agape, but in every pure form of Love you find God!
I have experienced soo much this summer. from homeless ministry to painting, God has used this summer to show me soo much about the man he wants me to be, and has begun crafting me to be that man. i can see the changes that God has made in my life and in my heart. He has shown me the difference from living for self and living for others. Truly live a life that is lived, first to God, and then to others.

God has done soo much this summer i could wright forever and still have a story to tell, but the greatest thing God has done for me in this summer is expressed in one word, Freshness. Everything has been made a new!! Things i grew up hearing and experiencing now have this great freshness to it. i cant realy explain why or how, but i find myself wanting and longing for the things of God with a new zeal and a new passion in my heart. One like i have never expeienced before in my life, and i am in awe. God is leading me to something, and honestly i have no idea what it is or if its going to hard to get to or not, but one thing i do know. My God is the great author of life and everything in it, my God crafted the mountains and the seas, and my God is my father and i trust him with all that i am.
On a side note, i meet this pretty awesome girl while i have been here. I am seeking out God on this whole thing, but im pretty excited that i get to be apart of her life, thats all.

but all that aside i realize that as awesome as this summer has been, if i leave this place and not apply what God has shown me to wherever I go, it was all for not. i now have an obligation as Paul did, to show this great Love to all that meet! How great is our God!! the time is coming, and has come, when i start giving myself more than tha which i am receiving.

Thank you matt, justin, and everyone that has been a great blessing to me this summer!! and though i am leaving you will always be in my prayers and in my heart!! i Love you guys and pray that the Lord would give you a double portion of whatever blessing he is giving me.

Nicks weekly update

so once again i am not use to writing a blog about my life and posting it, so i am not going to bore you with a huge paper of thing i think were exciting...just the highlights, i promise.

So the biggest thing that happened this week is the "Love Buckets" This epic adventure, which started in the dome of one Justin Simmons, is with out a doubt one of the greatest displays of Ministry that I have seen... maybe i over exaggerate a little bit, but i digress. It was a truly great time of ministry. The Love Chapel Hill crew and I got about 1500 flowers, put them in to buckets ( hence the Love Buckets in case anyone was confused about the name) and drop them off in part of the city, and left. We got to hand out a few flowers, which was awesome by the way, but the leaving them there was one of the sweetest things about this event. It wasn't us trying to empress anyone or trying to get the churches name recognized, it was simply a group of people want to show the Love they had received to the people who needed it, and what better way than a flower (obviously there are allot of ways but i really liked this one :)) anyway we got some sweet stories out of it and some epic pictures which i have on my facebook page, but i know that this event went further than we realized, and i pray that everyone who picked up a flower that day would begin to be stured by the spirit, because God is going to fall on Chapel Hill, North Carolina in a mighty way very soon!! man good times!!

other than that the week was filled with super awesome times on franklin street, but i wont go in to all that, just keep me in your prayers. I love you guys, thanks for all your prayers!! be blessed and ill hit you up again soon

P.s. Excusse any misspellings of any sort...hooked on phonics didn't really work for me :)

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Okay so i am new to this whole "blog my life thing." so i will try my best to be as transparent as i can be and maybe and a little excitement somewhere in there some places.

Well for those who do not know i have been given the awesome opportunity to spend my summer in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and work with some of the sweetest dudes in ministry!! Love Chapel Hill baby!! lol. i am truly thankful to be here. Anyway i have been here for a little over a week now and I am truly amazed at the things God can do and already has done here! I have realized that i have soo much to learn about ministry and its only been the first week! This thing that i have been called to, this life of ministry goes so far beyond Sunday mornings or Wednesday nights, it is truly a LIFE of ministry. daily, hourly, secondly showing this great gift we have received to the world. Being the light that shows the way to the Life. All that to say i have removed any and all preconceived notions of what i want to learn this summer, and have just started looking for what God wants me to do, But i wont bore you anymore with my thoughts on that :) my days are filled with giving water and hanging out with the harmless, hanging out at this sweet well, were I spend time just reading and praying. i think the sweetest part of that is that this well is right on UNC campuss, and it use to be the source of water to the school. I have this crazy dream that this old well would be the center of this great movement of God to Chapel Hill. that the water of Life would flow from that place!! man that would be sweet!! i also have been spending my time getting to know this culture and what is needed to see God explode in this place. I've there is this huge sense of community in this place, almost like a family. they are all about local support and local businesses! kinda reminds me how the church should be. So if we can somehow become apart of this community, I can see God doin some epic stuff!!!

Right now I am trying to focus on simply this ministry and how God wants me to grow and learn this summer, but I defiantly have not forgotten my friends and love ones, some a little more than others, you know who you are ;) so my prayers are with you guys, if your reading this i love y'all and i will always be there if you need me...but mushy stuff aside ill try and keep you updated on how i am doing and whats going on here.