Turkey Bowl 2009

Sunday, November 29, 2009

The ups and downs of this football season correlate very nicely with my own personal life. I would go into detail...except I won't. I'll just talk about football instead. The season started out pretty rough. I was super excited/pumped to be playing with the girls again, but it definitely didn't feel like the same team I had played with 2 years ago. When we were practicing, it was SERIOUS-BUS TIME. No more dancing/singing/shadow-fighting/goofing around in the field. I felt I had to prove myself to the coaches more so than the week before, which in itself made practices progressively suckier. It wasn't until the Sunday before tourney when the team went out to Lighthouse Tofu (which is totally delicious btw) and Mary shared her life story/testimony. Listening to how amazing and huge of a change God has made in Mary's life was a huge reminder to me of how much He has been moving and growing me this past year.

Day before the tourney, my sore throat had evolved into a raging fever + uber-congestion. My little brother wanted to go to best buy to experience the chaos and confusion that is Black Friday. Instead, I ended up dragging him to Giant so I could buy meds + coughdrops. I felt bad, so I bought him a box of cereal (He's such a good little egg, that one). During the Chesed get together later that day, I shared how thankful I am for improved relations among my family members, especially Matt. My attempts to emotionally scar and corrupt him at a young age have clearly failed. He's seriously a perfect kid. But the one thing that makes me so proud of him more than anything is that he seriously loves God. This past summer, we spent an entire night in Les Issambres staring at the Milky Way, counting shooting stars, and just saying over and over again, "God, you are awesome". You can't really say much else when you're looking at a freaking galaxy in the sky and a TRILLION more stars than you've ever seen at once.

Day of Turkey Bowl. By the grace of God and a buttload of vitamin C, I was able to play. But everything just felt so completely different this year than it did 2 years ago. It was about praising God for every single good thing that happened that day and not praising myself or anyone else.