Giving it up...

Yesterday I had a chance to talk to one of my fellow math teachers about addictions to sports. He is a basketball coach here and was talking about how he is addicted to basketball and can not handle how bad it gets during season. It was a perfect chance for me to share about my addiction to volleyball. Most of you know that I played volleyball my freshmen year at Howard Payne. That is all just one year. I would like to say the reasons why were because it wasn't fun any more or that I didn't like my time always being filled with volleyball. But that was not the case. God showed me how consumed I had become with volleyball. I could not talk to someone without bringing it up. Those shirts that say eat, sleep, and play volleyball was a perfect description of what my life had become. It did not help either that the girls on the team seemed to be the only people I had time to hang out with because we were nothing alike. That is when God hit me in the face with it. Volleyball had taken the number one spot in my life. I put in first in everything I did. My relationship with God began to slip and being around the other players so much was not helping me any. That is when I decided I didn't want it to be like this any more; that I wanted things to change so as hard as it was for me I quit. I decided that if I could not give up a thing like volleyball for God then how could I call myself a Christian. And I never regretted it for a second. In fact it took me a while to even get back into playing it just for fun. But just having the chance to share that story with the Coach is big. Lately God has been opening the door for me to talk to him about a lot of the things that God has done for me personally so if you could pray for the opportunities to continue to arise and for me to say the right thing I would appreciate it. I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend!!!!