Since not everyone reads Mike's blog

Here is his last update. I think it's quite profound. Mostly because I am so that name dropping person he is describing!

"We were at church on Sunday, and I felt something I've never felt, at least towards Christ. Endearment. You know how everyone has a famous (or semi-famous friend) that they feel the need to establish their connection to that person every time he/she is brought up. It's like they have to prove that they knew that person before they were famous, and in order to accomplish this they will do one of two things: 1. The casual approach: make an offhand comment about how so-and-so "didn't use to wear his collar popped", hoping some unsuspecting victim will ask them how they know that, then they can unload their full arsenal of pre-famous stories; 2. The slightly more blatant approach is to lean in to whomever happens to be unfortunate enough to be sitting next to them when this "celebrity" is shown on TV, and say, "you know, I was in so-and-so's second grade class..." with a smug grin their face, and just wait for the commentee to show an inkling of appreciation. Where am I going with all this? Well, there's no more famous person than Christ, and no one has more humble beginnings than He. I feel like when people bring Him up, I can be like "I know Him!", and "Let me tell you this story, Jesus was just a little kid and he was hanging with some dudes in the temple, and then his parents were like 'Jesus, where you been' and he was like 'where you think I been at? in my dad's house' oh man, it was the coolest cuz they had no idea he was like the savior of the world and stuff." That's the kind of relationship I want to have with Jesus. Like, if Jesus was on tour or something, and I hadn't seen Him in a while, but it'd be crazy backstage, but I'd still feel like I was the only person He'd thought about since the last time we talked. I bet that's what Heaven's like."