Sunday, October 24, 2010

My Life is so, not finished

Nice long blog to make up for a bit shorter one last time. It's still worth reading I think.
So, I still don't understand why I tore my ACL again, it bothers me a lot. I have been thinking about it a lot. I don't know if I will ever find out. But I decided when I get back to playing bball in a year, I'm going to go hard because I love the sport. I can't get rid of it. Yeah, Ill let it heal, definitely make sure I've got myself and my knee in ridiculous shape to cut down on injury rates. If I give all I have, like I'm playing for the Lord, and I get injured, okay. It's happened before haha. I'm okay with getting injured playing the sport I love for the One I love. Thats it.
But that is a ways off, and I'm sure God will use me in great ways because of this injury.
So back to life right now. This wednesday I am planning on helping out Reece Loeffler with middle school basketball. I'm so excited. I loved having Reece as a coach freshman year, he was strangely fun to work hard for. And trust me, it was hard work. I'm not sure how this will work out with middle schoolers, not because I dont think middle schoolers have good work ethic(this group might for all I know), but I know that I was not a big fan of hard work in middle school. I didnt like mitson's running, I dont know if I could have handled Reece. Yeah, I'm excited to help out with bball, hopefully I can be a good senior leader, and help lay a foundation for when they get to play in high school.
I did have a pretty solid weekend. Friday included Liberty football, probably the dumbest car accident I have ever heard of(I feel for your car, Big T), and a "Pizza, pizza part-y! Pizza, pizza! Chomp, chomp!" Saturday consisted of a workout, several lawn mowings, and NVYC. Good message about Daniel and changing the culture around us for Christ, even if I am short on places where I feel I can have a huge, culture changing impact. I really like that youth group though. I really feel like the people that come each week are truly trying to follow God the best they can, and it's refreshing to see. I get sick of seeing Christians that just go about life, not doing anything to develop their faith. It's something I've felt I need to change in my life, and I'm really trying.
I'll start what happened today with basketball, get more spiritual later in my description. I went to fall ball, we played Hermiston today, and from what I hear they werent the friendliest of people on the court. However, they did dunk it 3 times, which was ridiculous. I wont pretend I didnt get excited after ever dunk, its fun to watch.
I felt sick for the whole game, and for a while after. It kills me to sit on the bench when I know I could be helping if I was healthy. I know we probably still wouldnt have won, but I just want to contribute.
Tonight I skipped Intersect since it was some game night, and decided to hang out with Danielle, Bryan, and Amber. So that was pretty good, even if all we did was talk, I actually enjoy just talking about stuff sometimes.
This morning we had a guest speaker at Bethel named Dr. Allan Meyer. I've seen the guy speak before, so I knew it was going to be good, and he did not disappoint. He is Australian, so he has a sweet accent. He is funny, so I can laugh while the sermon is going on. And he has some great stuff from God. Today he talked about how to deal with paradoxical people, who are good and bad. The point is everyone does stuff that is for our good, and stuff that hurts us. His way of dealing with these people that are difficult: honor your father and mother. But this honor isnt thinking that they are perfect, its looking at the positive and the negative. Look at the positive, and show gratitude for it. Look at the negative, as bad as it was, and show forgiveness. If we can do this for our parents, we can apply it for all paradoxical people. Pretty good stuff.

No comments:

Post a Comment