We won 17-7 on Friday. Listen to the sermon from my church's 11am service today. If you've read my previous post it'll make more sense.

So a quick recap of what has been going on the past few weeks. First off we've won our past two games 48-7 and 24-7. We're now 6-1 and doing pretty well. 2 weeks ago we had a bye week and I spent that weekend going on an adventure in the woods (otherwise known as camping) with Ben, Eric, Josh and Andrew. We saw Elk, hiked, walked around in a creek and spooned with bears. Here is a heartwarming photo...
Also, last week Sarah, one of my two seminary friends came back and visited. Here is another heartwarming photo of me, her and Andrew after the game last Friday. I hope each of these photos creates the illusion that I have friends.
Now for the contemplation part. As you my five faithful readers know, it has been a somewhat difficult year for me with the move and what not. Ever since I left Nashville last December I have been holding on to some bitterness. Not so much because of the job, I saw God's hand in where he was leading me and leading the student ministry at Brentwood, but because I had to leave my friends. I continually struggle with being away from my friends that became my family over the past 5 years.

As a result of this bitterness, I've never really given seminary a chance. I don't mind my classes I actually enjoy them as much as one can enjoy school. I just don't really mesh with the people at the seminary. I've allowed my circumstances to dictate my disposition. I'll pause here to say that I don't sit around in my room without the lights on listening to Beck with spider killing pesticide bombs going off (see Seth for back story) very often, I do enjoy some things in Wake Forest. It would however, be safe to say that my current life situation has determined my outlook.

At Providence we've been doing a ministry training program where a small group of guys who are at the seminary study what it means to be "called". Over the past month we had to read the book Humilty by C.J. Mahaney (I highly recommend this book). Today we met to discuss the book and one of the ministers brought in guest speaker to talk to us about humility. The man he brought in had cerebral palsy and his parents abandoned him as a baby and pretty much his entire life has been a difficult struggle. Hearing him talk created the normal amount of guilt in me and I sat there thinking the cliche thing "how can I be discouraged with my situation when this guy has it so much worse than me." But before I could fall into my 'feel sorry for myself' mood he said something that struck me as very profound. He said "You shouldn't magnify your situation, you should magnify Christ."

On the surface its pretty simple, yet it struck a chord in me. It revealed another area of my life where pride reigns. I sit here in my apartment and wallow in my disappointment and as stated before, allow my circumstances to dictate my life. I magnify and glorify my problems and in doing so I rob God of the glory that He rightfully deserves. I have a great deal to be thankful for and in forgetting what God has done for me I allow my momentary and light afflictions to distract me from God's overarching plan for my life.

Circumstance is like a stormy sea, it tosses people from place to place and situation to situation. The waves are high and the end is never clearly in sight. Despite the magnitude of the storm we are called to place our faith and trust in the savior who not only can calm the sea but walk on the waves and meet us where we are. So, 10 months out of a major transition I've finally learned that I need to look back and be thankful for where I've been and turn around and depend on Christ to take me to where I need to be.

I've never really posted anything this long and whenever I write about spiritual things I run the risk of sounding cliche and ministerish. My hope is that you 5 folks will see that this is where I am and as far as blogging goes this is a pretty clear look into my heart.

Well our pre-conference schedule is now complete. We beat High Point Central last week and Northern Durham this past Friday. Both games were competitive and we needed that to help us prepare for our conference.

Life outside of football is full of reading. I wish I had more exciting things to report but there isn't much to tell. You can pray for my upcoming midterms that would be appreciated and you can pray for the coaches that I work with everyday.

Oh and I am really looking forward to this season premiere and this one.

Well we lost. Fortunately it was to a very good team. I could make a bunch of excuses but there is no point.

Its been a busy week I've had to do a lot of reading for class. Between class, football and working out I don't have much going on. On a Godly note, we're doing a new intern training program at Providence and its going to be good for me. I'll have a consistent group of guys to talk about ministry with and it will also provide some much needed accountability.

Game tomorrow night vs. High Point Central. I will post the results next week. Until then, I will be awaiting the advent of a black hole created by the Large Hadron Collider.

I should be reading right now but instead I will give an update on football. We beat East Wake 35-6 this past week. We're good but it was a sloppy game. I got home at like 3 am that night after washing game pants. This week's game should be much tougher because we are playing Southern Durham and they're pretty good. I'll keep you posted. Read this article and scroll down to Wake Forest Improving...yup my name is spelled wrong but its there. Oh yeah, apparently Hurricane Hannah is coming this way so that could provide some weekend fun. Maybe it will get me out of class somehow.

So, I haven't been blogging lately at all. I don't really have time but that is a lame excuse. The fall semester has started, football is in full swing and between those two things I basically have time to eat, sleep and write romance novels.

We had our first game Friday night versus Durham Riverside and we played very well. I really enjoy coaching football. Here is a link about the team I help coach.

I'll try to blog more but I'll definitely blog once a week and give an update on football. Pray for me I need it right now.

A lot is on the mind of Brian these days. I just started a Theology class today, that will provide many discussion points in the days to come. Side note, after many months of searching for some Sufjan Steven's B-side songs I finally found a ton of them. One of my favorites is Woman At The Well because it sounds Biblical and now I will share it with you. Oh, I also think I might vote for Ralph Nader thanks to Eric.