"As a kid I went fishing with my father and I always got frustrated because I kept snagging my line. My father looked at me and said, Mike, if you dont get snagged, you're fishing in the wrong places"

Those were the words of Mike Eppes that were told to me today.

Sunday morning I did my typical walk into church, sit down, and get ready for the service to start. This Sunday was different.... a younger guy came over to me... in jeans and a t-shirt as everyone wears who goes to my church.... he started talking to me.... and he introduced himself as Mike Eppes.... it took a few seconds but then the name clicked and I realized that this was the brand new pastor.

Today I went to hang out with him a bit after lunch. We talked for a few hours I think.... tonight I wasn't supposed to work so I had the whole night free and he asked me to go to a group...... I did.....

Let me say this..... Mike will never know how much he has impacted my life. And to be honest, I dont know if I could even place my finger on why he impacted me so much. There is no doubt in my mind that I am at the church that God wants me at..... as always, I believe God is going to do something with me....

.... but wait..... Mike was the first person in history to tell me something otherwise. He said that its not about what God is preparing me for.... it's that God is using me now in ways that I can't even imagine. He told me that He used me today..... tonight..... Mike told me that I blessed him.... I made an impact tonight and I didnt even realize it. I don't know if I still do..... but whatever the situation is.... if someone says they see that I am being used by God, then... well, that means something to me. Not an in the future thing.... its not a "someday" thing.... it's now.... My life is about to change so drastically in the next few weeks.... again..... my life does that quite often. I don't know why.... I don't know what all this is supposed to mean.... but the thing is that it doesnt matter.... no matter how stupid something I do looks to someone else, it only matters what it looks like in God's eyes.

Mike will never know the impact that he made on me.......