Prayer/Life

It's been a long time since I've posted on here.  Life's been a little hectic lately.  Here's the past week or two in a nut shell:

Something is wrong with my foot, but it's my senior track season, and I didn't work so hard the last four years to back down when the going got tough.  Not to mention as the leading scorer, I feel like I owe it to the team to try.

We've had a rollercoaster season, but we pulled it together and won not only Section True Team, but last Saturday and won State True Team for class A.

Found out on Monday that we have a Calculus final Tuesday through Friday.  That's right, a pop-final.  Not cool.

So with work, school, track, and getting ready to graduate I've been keeping busy.

I wanted to talk a little about prayer.  Like I mentioned, Saturday my track team headed up to Stillwater to compete in the State True Team meet.  A couple days before the meet, I had posted on the Prayer Request Group's facebook wall.  I told them about the meet, how the weather was supposed to be bad, and my foot.

Although it rained during 99% of the meet, they kept the meet running and there wasn't any lightning to delay it.  We have had to practice in the rain many times this year, and I feel like we had the upper hand over the other teams with the weather how it was.  It let up right at the end of the meet. 

I asked for some prayers for my foot.  Even though it hurt a lot between my events, it felt great when I was running and I had some good performances considering it was raining.  I even had a pass on the last leg of the 4x400 that counted as a 6 point swing over the second place team, who we only outscored by 4.5 points.

God works in mysterious ways.  Only He can see the "blueprint" to all of our lives.  A while ago, I might have asked God to help me win, but I know now that that's not how it works.  God doesn't pick one side of good people over another.  The other track teams certainly weren't possessed by the devil.  I didn't ask God make my team better than the others, or to heal me just so that I could do better.  There are more important things than track.

I asked God to help me be a leader for my team, to let the meet run smoothly without delays, and that my foot would hold up for the meet.  He helped me with all this, as well as blessing me and my team with the championship. 

I believe that things happen for a reason.  I'm not sure why or what's wrong with my foot.  But I do know that even more than last year when I was our number one hurdler, this year I've been working even harder on leading the other hurdlers and setting a good example for all of the younger kids.  Last year, I kept looking forward to this year, and how I had a shot at individual state titles.  But now, with my foot and all, I might miss my trip to State again, but I already feel like I've accomplished all my goals through State True Team.

It kinda sucks that it took a bad foot in my senior year of track to fully realize it, but track (life) isn't just about being a good individual.  It's about being a role model to someone younger, being a leader, a follower, a team player.  It's about leaving behind an example that you can be proud of, and helping the people around you become better too.

Life.....

Life. A struggle, a grind, a punch for punch boxing match. Those things are describing my life right now. But no one said life was going to easy did they? Apparently not because this punch for punch boxing match is really starting to get to me, in other words I am in what you would call a "funk" or in TEC terms a "valley." Here is what is on my mind tonight, how Life seems to be knocking me out, to use a boxing term. Life for me is a good one, I have a great family, good network of friends, good in school, and all of that good stuff going for me, but I seem to always be a step behind in life....never a step ahead of whats going to happen. I mean as soon as my life feels like I'm getting back out of my previous valley, I get punched in the gut causing me to fall back into that valley. Right now, I have that "kicked in the gut" and depressed feeling you get when you are at your lowest. Let's start out with my previous valley and work it up to the now new valley I am in. The last month or so my faith has taken a turn towards the not-so-good, not like not believing, but more like the "going through the motions" type thing and I could feel the relationship between God and I weakening from my end. Lately though, Im really starting to bring my faith back and starting to feel back to my old self until tonight when I got the "punch in the gut" from Life. Apparently, my uncle and I'm not going to go into details, is very very sick like organ transplant would be needed, but because of his previous surgeries he might not be able to handle that. So there is my valley I'm in now, worried sick about my uncle and yet having all my daily stressors added ontop of that. Life is a punch for punch boxing match, and right now I'm knocked out....but I grind through my life, pray to God to show me the rightous path, and to perform one last miracle for my family.

The End of the World

Hello one and all. It has been awhile since my last post and I have got a lot to talk about tonight. First of all, with all the end of the world stuff. Let's dive right into it. Alrighty, I do believe that Judgement Day is real and that near the end of my lifetime or even after my lifetime the world will indeed come to an end. But, here's the deal the whole rational behind the thinking of when this is going to happen is totally ludacris (and no not like the rapper). The theory is based on biblical translations from old testament to new, but here is the deal the bible can be translated into many different ideals or opinions at what you think it is trying to tell you, like when each of us reads a passage from the bible we get out of it what we feel like it means to us. I mean some of the things the bible says are stated metaphorically and use comparisons to tell us life lessons and such. Ok back to the case at hand.....End of the world. I think that we will indeed have a Judgement Day, but to use all different variables to figure out an exact date of when this will happen is not what its about. I think that we as followers of Christ are supposed to live each day as if it is our last. People have stated earlier that the world was going to end at the beginning of the new millenium....guess what, we are alive. In my personal opinion, nothing against any of you that believe that tomorrow is the beginning of the end but, I'm going to live my life like I have been and take it one day at a time, thanking the good Lord for giving me another day on the great earth he created for us. Plus, I really dont want to have my life taken from me before I even graduate high school, I believe that I have a lot of life ahead of me and that no matter what happens tomorrow, in October, next year, or heck even 90 years from now, that I will be a continuous follower of God and what ever happens happens. As my friend, Spock from Star Trek would say, "Live long and prosper" my friends.