My Story

Before

I have lived in Clarksville my whole life. I grew up going to church weekly. I went every Sunday, every Wednesday, and attended any other event we had. Having been going to church my whole life, I knew many Bible stories and always had the "church" answer in Sunday School. My family has been a great asset to my life. I have wonderful parents and a big brother that would do anything for me. Life was good. I had everything I needed, so I thought.

How

As hard as it is to admit it, I looked up to my brother starting at a young age. Though we didn't get along all the time I still wanted to be like him. At the age of eight I remember asking my mom about accepting Christ, my brother had done it and I felt it was now my turn. She sat me down on the couch of our living room with a small Bible. It may have been just the New Testament. I can't remember. I do remember going down the Romans Road with her and learning about God's love for me and how he died on the cross for my sins and by accepting Him I would be saved. The next Sunday my mother and I walked down the aisle of the old orange sanctuary. That day I asked God into my life to save me and walk with me through the rest of my life.

Since

As I have grown older physically I have continued to also grow spiritually. I use the Bible not just for its amazing stories, but as a how to guide for life. I of course still sin because that is the nature of every human. I however strive every day to be more Christ like. I've learned that when I fall short of God's glory I can go to Him and will pick me up and guide me. This year as proved to be one of the biggest struggles yet, with so many choices to make about my future. I have looked to God in all of them and I know He is taking me where I need to be. Everyday he shows me new things that awe me. I say awe because God is truly the only AWESOME thing in life, He is the only one worthy of AWE.

Elizabeth
3:14

three soccer games, two hours with doctors, and one hurt foot later

I am aware that this blog is a week late, but this stupid computer has been acting funny and I have just stayed away from it. Last weekend and this past week were rather exciting but awful in their own ways.

The title of this blog makes it sound like I had a rough weekend. In all actuality, I did. In the first twenty or so minutes of our first soccer game I managed to get kicked extremely hard in my RIGHT foot. I stress right foot because I am a right footed player, which means I use it a whole lot more often that I use my useless left foot. I continued to play the rest of the weekend, but winced every time I kicked the ball and ended up having to be pulled in the last game because the pain was unbearable.

The worst part of playing like a five year old was that the Union coach was there. How embarrassing. I was able to talk to him and explain what happened. It still was a real bummer to let my team down though. Because the fact of the matter is we lost horribly bad.

Next weekend we are playing in Auburn. I can't stand the fact that my stupid foot will still probably enable me to play. I am however, going down to support the team, and maybe just maybe my foot will be able to hold up for a few games. I know its need to rest to get better, but I am such a stubborn person.

When the word stubborn is brought up around Christians they seem to get tense and say God calls stubborn people heathens (Acts 7:51). I however don't look at it this way. Yes I can be extremely stubborn at times, but when I think of stubborn I think of Jonah. If you want to talk about stubborn that's the man. To try to hide from God? I mean lets be serious Jonah. After being swallowed by a big fish and spit out alive Jonah got a SECOND CHANCE from God. He didn't argue this time and went to Nineveh. Even though he was skeptical of the people there he was wrong, they believed him and believed God.

So being stubborn isn't all that bad in the end. Yes it can get you eaten by a big fish, but God's love is universal. He loves us even when we don't follow the right path at first, but if we keep are eyes focused on Him he will guide us in the right direction and protect us every step of the way.

I know going from soccer to Jonah is a stretch. But sometimes rambling helps me. And in reality it all comes down to being stubborn, which I am.

Elizabeth
3:14