Wow....this is the first time I have updated within one day of another update! LOL! I really wanted to get on here, and just thank God for the call of intimacy he has made in my life especially with starting at Belle Aire. Guys, I grew up in another church for 12 years, but I sensed that God was calling me to Belle Aire. I was a little worried that I hadn't made the right decision, but God really has met me. God has worked in so many wonderful youth, college students, and adults to make me feel welcome there. Dean's message this morning really affirmed that leap of faith for me because for so long I felt like my parents would never respect the decision I made to leave. I told them in January that I was sensing a call to leave everything I had known to join Belle Aire. Like any loving parents would do, they tried everything to keep me where I was, but as time went on I felt like God was still tugging on my heart. When my parents finally did let God take me away, they realized like I did that God only had good intentions for me. What God showed me this morning was that when we enter that narrow gate as his disciple without any other influence, we become the person he intended for us to be. I feel like each day God is continuing to mold me into the man that he intended for me to be, and that excites me! I just want to again thank my new family at Belle Aire for just being by my side to encourage me. I realize there will be weeks when I miss being where I was, but the feeling I have by living in God's heart and his calling for my life, is a feeling that I never want to release. I'm right where I need to be. Thank you Daddy....

Matthew 7:13-14: Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a FEW find it.