I'm Matt, and I am easily distracted!

Right then, I’m Matt Schmidgall and I am a Sophomore at Western Oregon University. My major is Mathematics. Yes, I’m one of those creepy kids that actually enjoys sitting in his room for hours on end doing math homework. I chose it because while I enjoy doing it, I also feel pretty passionately about the field itself. Math is neat!

Not as neat as God, of course. Well, I didn’t always feel that way. In fact, I used to think God was a mean-spirited jerk that spent most of His time not existing. Then, when He was bothering to exist, He was usually spending the time making my life, and everyone else’s, worse. The people who claimed to follow Mr. Nonexistent Of-The-Bible were pretty trashy, too, I felt.

Then, as things go, I happened to meet a few people throughout my high school years that ate away at those misconceptions. Good, honest, loving Christians. Eventually I stopped being a stubborn, angsty little boy in regards to the idea of God. Well, less so of one, anyway. It took me a while to drop the baggage completely.

My Junior year was when I really started considering God. About halfway through I finally let myself start feeling the hunger I had for Him. Quite a bit of time went by (I am really, really stubborn), but the summer of my Junior year I finally accepted Christ into my life. That’s where the most lovely of love stories began in my life, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight.

God has really started getting me more involved with Christian activities. I used to hate youth groups and most Christians (Like I said, I was a stubborn, stubborn boy), but now I’m involved with Campus Crusade at WOU (something I’d love to see my past self learn about. The look on my face would be priceless.). My main experience with seeing God’s kingdom and expansion is primarily seeing that there IS a kingdom on campus. There have been some incredible opportunities for growth and healing in many areas of my life. Beginning to see His depth of presence and scope is wonderful.

Luke 11:9-10

So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.