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Performance

I am learning more and more of how my worth and value does not depend on my performance. We are beings who are obsessed with accomplishments. People are defined more by what they do rather than who they are. As an athlete, it's hard to shake off that mentality. I have spent much energy and time working to be better and competing against other people. Coaching track this past season, I have seen many athletes become so wrapped up in their performance and it ends up affecting every other area of their life. Now I'm not saying we shouldn't care about how well we do things or competition is bad. God definitely wants us to pursue excellence. But when that pursuit becomes ultimate, it's a problem.  We will never be satisfied by our performance. We will always want more. And when we fail to meet the standards we place upon ourselves and see others doing better than we are, a great amount of discouragement and frustration comes. We throw pity parties. The way we respond can...

A New Season

It's been a long time. I've been thinking about bringing this blog back for a while. Now I'm finally doing it. And I think the maturation I've gone through over the past year or so will help me do this better. I was looking at my old posts and laughed a little bit because I noticed how immature I was back then, and I'm sure a while from now when I'm looking back at these posts the same thing will happen. I even considered taking those posts off if I was going to restart this blog, but decided to keep them, whether or not I disagree with some of the things I said, because it will be a way to see how God is working in my life and constantly growing me (if anyone is crazy enough to want to read back that far). I want to be more consistent with this than I was before. No excuses about time because we always have time for what we make time for. Plus, I have plenty of free time anyways. A few reasons for wanting to blog: I guess having this platform allows me to ha...