Basketball

Basketball. It is my life. I have played since I was at least 5 years old. Basketball. Then in middle school it took over my life. Club team. Tournaments every weekend, practice 4 times a week. Eat. Breathe. Live. Basketball. Its funny how I have spent so much time running up and down a court and shooting a basketball through a orange hoop with a net hanging down from it. Years of all that bounding, hurting, beating on my own body. What athletes do in order to keep going...its crazy. It's crazy for any other normal person. haha, NORMAL :)

Now 16 years later look at where it has gotten me. A scholarship to USC, a private institution worth over $50,000 per year. Amazing friends and a second family (my teammates). This simple gift has provided so many things for me. Gotten me so far in life. I am so blessed.

I sit here tonight just thinking about what I put my body through, and where I have come from and where I am now. I am who I am because of this simply small gift God gave me. It is through basketball I grew up. Through basketball I made lasting relationships. Through basketball I came to know Jesus Christ. And through basketball I am where I am today. Praise the Lord! God is good. He has blessed me in so many different ways and I do not deserve it, yet he provides for us.

How often do we take a moment to look back on our life and think of how we have become who we are. And how the Lord has provided for us so many times. He always comes through. Never doubt, he'll always come through.