Ready for a great weekend!

This should be a very exciting weekend! The best football game of the season is upon us, get to spend time with the ones I love most, and am looking forward to the message this weekend at church. What more could someone ask for?
This has to be the year that the Irish break the streak. It has been 7 years of too many whippings from the trojans. Jimmy Siete is primed for a statement win. There is too much on the line in this game to not come out swinging. If the Irish lose, everything that we have going for us will be deflated. All of the steam and buzz around the team will be gone, people will blow us off as the same team we have been for the last 10-15 years, and recruiting will suffer setting us back for the forseeable future. On the other hand, a win could solidify our season to this point. They could show the world that we are for real and are back on track to be a national power once again. It is time for Jimmy to throw us on his back and leads us to victory! The only thing that concerns me is not having Michael Floyd on the field for this one. How can you defend Michael Floyd on one side, Golden Tate on the other, and Kyle Rudolph up the middle? Somebody is going to have to step up to keep the double teams from Tate. My prodiction......ND wins 30-21!!
I am also excited about our new series at church. It is good to feel that way again after a few weeks of questioning the direction of our church. We weren't able to go last weekend, but I did watch the service online and was refreshed. The message was about the distance we feel between us and God at times and how we can work to bring us together. It is funny how God works. Sometimes I feel that my wife would like me to have more of a passion for my religion. I do believe in God and know that Jesus Christ died for our sins and is our savior. I had not gone to church for awhile, but always had a relationship with God. I just have never really been open about it or talked much about it. I do love God, but it does feel distant. Sometimes I do wonder where God is in this world. God has blessed me with a loving family, a good job, and roof over my head, but when you watch the news or read the newspaper everyday you begin to question. Not questioning that there is a God, but why does he allow for all of these things to happen? Why does there have to be so many tragic ways of leaving this world? Why can't it just be that when the good lord is ready to call you home, you just go? Why does there have to be diseases, car accidents, war, hunger, murders etc. The last couple weeks I began to pray to God for him to help me love him more. I always hear that you are suppose to love God first and foremost, but I don't know how to do that. My love pales in comparison to my love for my wife and children. I try to live my life the way I believe God would want me to live, and know that God loves me and has reason and purpose for everything in my life, but I was asking for help to find that passion that I see from so many people. Then I watch the service from last week and it is basically talking about the same thing I had been praying about. It just reminds me of the movie signs when the say What if there isn't any coincedences? Just thought I would share a little tesimony with you.