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Last Friday I had an awesome opportunity to put on a tux and go to an event with my lovely bride and leave our four kiddo’s cared for at home. We had a great time, ate some great food, danced, and got to hang out with some good friends. But what I bring to you here today came from the speaker for the event who affectionately calls himself Julie’s brother.

"After I have known itLove works so in meThat whether things go well or badlyLove turns them to one sweetnessTransforming the soul in itself.And so in its delighting flameWhich I am feeling within me,Swiftly, with nothing spared,I am wholly being consumed"- St. John of the Cross
Over the past couple of years, I’ve had a developing relationship with St. John of the Cross. In reading his poems and coming to an understanding of his spirituality, I have realized more and more that I so desire to relate to God the way he does.

Do you ever impose limits on God?  I would like to think that I haven’t, but that just isn’t true.  I’ve known that God can use and work through me.  This has been a recurring theme in my prayer life from the very beginning of my involvement in ministry.  Even though I am familiar with the idea that God wants to use us, I know that I have greatly underestimated the ways in which He wants to use me in particular… well, until recently that is.