A Break....

I have decided to give my brain a break for a minute. I have been working on homework going on 19 hours this weekend, so I decided to take a break and update the blog :]

Tomorrow I have 3 papers, 2 lesson plans, a big fitness program, and a 25 minute presentation all due....wow, yep that's what I thought. So 19 hours later, I am getting close. Probably only a couple of hours left. In between doing homework I managed to watch a few basketball games, go to a wedding shower, make a trip to Hutch (with a stop at Starbucks of course), go to chapel, a meeting, and catch a few hours of shut eye. But when I walk across that graduation stage in April, it'll all be worth it!!

The basketball girls lost both this weekend. Most left discouraged, but for some reason looking on the outside in has changed my whole outlook on things. They saw missed shots and turnovers, bad calls and missed opportunities, but I see the opportunities ahead. This is a starting place, every great team has to start somewhere. We can't expect to pick up where we left off last year, because it is a different team, yet at the same time, I see glimpses of great things to come. There is a lot of work to do, but it's also the first part of November, not the first part of February or March. I look at our team, and think of how good we could be come tournament time, and it makes me really excited. I feel blessed to still have the opportunity to be a part of this team, I love going crazy and cheering on the bench, and providing any support and encouragement I can. If there is any way that I can help this team, that's what I want to be for them. I don't care what the coaches say, or in this case don't say, I am there for my teammates, not my coaches, I don't play for them, I play and cheer for my girls.

I have realized how protective I am of the girls on my hall. Man I just love them and want the best for them, and when other things start getting in the way of that, mama hillary starts coming out :]. It's cool to see how the Lord uses the things that you have gone through, all the junk from freshman year, and everything else, how he uses that to help other people. To show them that there is a way out, that there is a reason to strive to live by the higher road, to live the life that the Lord has called us to, not a life of being content or comfortable, but a life of being stretched and pushed and pulled. If I endure something just so that down the road I can help someone else, then I wouldn't want it any other way.

"Am I not trying to win the approval of men, or God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ." Galatians 1:10