This is a must watch for everyone interested in dating and wanting to get married some day! We watched this at our IRON bible study, and I’ve never seen the guys so attentive. Way to go Mark!

I want to thank my friend Aaron for sharing his story. He is a living example of the power of God to save. Our heavenly Father often speaks to us in profound ways through stories, so I encourage you to have ears to hear what He is saying to you now as you read this.

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“If there was no way to God, I would have never laid in this grave of a body for so long”.

mewithoutYou

-Carousels

Those are some of my favorite lyrics to one of my favorite songs because it rings so true to my life. From an outsider’s perspective, prior to 2003, people probably thought I had it all together. The truth is, on the inside… I was dying. I was an empty shell caught in a life that was far from my heart. How could this be though? I was in college, trying to excel in life through the pursuit of wealth, power, and prestige. I was a popular kid living the life of a party… pursuing girls, beer, drugs, and laughter (mostly at other people’s expense). Those things were fulfilling to me… but only temporarily. The high that I felt only lasted as long as my “binge”. After the fog lifted, emptiness set in. The more that I binged, the emptier I felt… before long, chronic depression was the only emotion left. Nobody realized it though because I put on a great “front”. I lived my life to the expectations of my peers… I didn’t even know who I was anymore. I almost committed suicide on a drunken day in 2003. Sitting outside, with a beer in my hand and thinking of ways to kill myself, I looked up at the sky and wondered what would happen to me when I died. I heard of a god when I was little. The god I heard about was a god of strict rules, and regulations driven. The thought of finding myself before God, if he existed, frightened me enough to not take my life.

I found myself working under the direction of several Christians that same summer (Divine intervention, perhaps). They witnessed to me through their lives. They had a genuine happiness about them that was contagious; only, they didn’t pursue the temporal means to happiness that I had always attributed to “fulfillment”. Curiosity, along with an invitation, brought me to their church one Sunday morning. It wasn’t long into the service before I felt a calling on my heart. The God I heard about was a God of furious love and compassion for his creation… the antithesis of the god I heard about as a child. At the closing of the sermon the Pastor quoted a verse in Revelations which Jesus spoke, “Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me”. That was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard in my life. The God of the universe, who created me, wanted permission to enter my life. That day, I gave my life to Christ… I gave him my pursuits, my depression, my everything… he gave me my heart back. God always loved me; I just never opened myself up to him to receive his love. God spoke to me about my life, he said, “Son, I loved you at your darkest”.

Logan is a 13 year-old boy who lives on a ranch in a very small town in Nebraska. Logan listens to Christian Radio station 89.3FM KSBJ which broadcasts from Houston, TX. Logan called the radio station distraught because he had to take down a calf . His words have wisdom beyond his years.

Since airing the audio of the phone call and now the making of the video clip, it has taken on a life of its own. People are forwarding it all over the world.

The first time I heard this song, I was moved by the truth in it. Check it out -

This stirred me up. Good stuff Bono.