USE ME TEACH ME

          Let me start off by saying that I have never done anything like this before, it is definitely a God thing.  I saw my first blog about a couple weeks ago and thought that it was a really cute thing to do.  Then my roommate/best friend came home and said that she had to do one for school and last but not least when I was at church on Wednesday night there was a lady up there talking about blogging.  Okay if that is not a calling from God that I need to do this than I don't know what is.  When I first thought about doing this I wasn't sure what I wanted to blog about or how often I wanted to blog so I sat down and thought about it.  I figured that this blog could be about the first year of mine and Mike's marriage and I would try to blog once a week about how God works in us, through us and our friends.  

          So now a little about us, Mike and I met 08.15.2009 and we started dating then.  We have been together for almost 2 years now and we have been married for almost 2 months.  Yep, that is right we are newlyweds!  

          I am completely blessed with him in my life and I will say that he is the man that I always prayed for .  We do plan on having kids and hopefully soon if God willing.  Well lets see Mike is 37 and a mechanic and I am 26 and work in health care.  We have attended East Pointe Christian Church and we really loved it.  Now I will be completely honest when I say that we haven't gone that much.  I would love to get plugged in more there and I think its going to start happening soon!  Well marriage is great so far I mean I know that we are going to get in arguments and fights but we need to remember that God is the center of our relationship.  I love him very much and I couldn't have asked for a better man to enter into my life. 

          So now we recently had my little sister over Callie,  she is a hoot.  Mike and I love her very much and she will have you cracking up in no time.  Some of the "Callieisms" we will call them are as follows:  "What does one eye say to the other......Something smells in between us!" and "The tongue and the bottom lip are having a conversation and the bottom lip says ewww whats that smell and the tongue says its your upper lip!"  Also I told Callie one night while she was staying with us that her and I give Mike panic attacks.  She believed me for days.  In fact she told me she wasn't sure if she would be allowed to come back because she gives Mike panic attacks.  I really enjoy having her here with me because when I was living at home we used to do so much together and now that Mike and I are married we really don't do that much together.  This is a picture of us at her cheer banquet, my mother couldn't take her so she asked me if I could.  These are the things I love about my sister that I can take her any where and we will always get mistaken for mother and daughter.  And sometimes she doesn't help matters with that.  She one time in the store came up to me and said "Hey mommy can I get this"  and the look on my face was priceless, I could always tell by the reactions of the cashiers.  Well I would then look at her and say "I am not your mommy and no you can't get that," her response then was "Mommy you don't love me."  Try explaining that one to a cashier...and I always did by saying "No really I am not her mom she is my little sister." 

          So the title Use Me Teach Me comes from a Plus One song (they are a christian boy band.)  I heard it the other day after "God" things started happening.  And I guess I had forgotten what it was like to feel those things and I have Shirley to thank for that.  If God hadn't put her in my life than I wouldn't have gotten to experience these God things now.  Then I realized that I did need to start saying to God, use me teach me!  My first God thing experience was when I went to my parents house the other day and my father had asked me to take him to the train station on a Thursday.  In the mean time of him saying this to me, I was thinking oh my goodness I have no clue where the train station is.  So I went to work on Thursday and we got sushi for Tracy's birthday and I went to go pick it up.  So I went the way I thought it was and then realized I took the wrong street.  I turned around and took one wrong turn and just kept driving.  I wound up by 45st and I looked up and there was a sign for the Amtrak.   It was the weirdest thing.  God was leading me there so that I knew where I was going.  I called my father and told him all about, I was so excited and he was excited for me as well.  Well on another note

          I am going to close this blog with Micah 4:2-and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths."  For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.