Happy (late) Thanksgiving!!

I guess the title really says it all, but Happy Thanksgiving!

ouch....

My first thought... "That medicine ball is so heavy"
Yesterday we had a conditioning practice, and so today every muscle I have is in pain. Although I'm in pain, I'm determined to get better because I have never had this much energy before. As far as the excersises that we had to do, I was suprised that I was able to keep pushing myself even though I was worn out after the first sprints. I also suprised myself how well I did on the first jog and pushing the car.

Back to choices...

So I had decided that I was going to do winter/color guard, at least that was until last night. Last night, our coach told us that practices would start going until 7:30, with AWANA being from 6:30 to 8:30, I knew that I had to make a choice. Also with games not being very important to me (although I still enjoy them, but less that discusion or handbook time) and knowing that if I did color guard, there would be a chance of me completely droping AWANA (games are last) I'm planing on quitting color guard. I know that everyone who's given me advice so far has basically either advised me to do color guard or left the choice completely up to me, now that I know that it's going to conflict with AWANA its-self, my choice is practically made. I'm going to drop color guard and start being at games practices. Please pray for me as I talk to the band directors (trying to get the practice night changed) and the color guard instructor. Pray that I'll make the right choice about this whole issue.

decisions

as I mentioned in my earlier post, I had some choices. I finally decided what I was going to do tonight, all the answer took was a quick call to the games captain, but I finnally called him tonight. I'm going to take that place on the Winter Guard team, and still hope to do games. It'll take a lot of work on my part, but if I make the games team, it'll be completely worth it.

Choices....

So the past two days I went to color guard auditions, did I make the team? YES!!!!! One problem though, I have Varsity/Journey Thursday nights and as far a Summit games practice goes, all of our practice is from 5:30 to 6:30, every week. So the problem is that since I'm on the color guard team, I'm required to go to all practices. When are their practices? Well, they're on Monday and Thursday afternoons. The time is from 4:30 - 6:30... Is there a problem? duh... I can't do both even though I really want to. So if you're reading this, start praying for me to make the right decision.

Last Year vs. This Year

Although for most people, their main competition at summit is either quiz or games, while I like quiz, God has gifted me in music and the Fine Arts competition is what I spend the most time preparing for. Last year, I barely studdied at all for quiz and while I knew I needed to study regularly, I didn't. (Sorry guys.) Compared to last year, I'm preparing for Summit much earlier. I've already memorized most of the verses for this year, word perfect and have them down, as far as fine arts, last year I learned both of my fine arts pieces in about a month and a half, not to mention I barely picked them out in time and hadn't finished memorizing/learning them until the week prior to summit. This year, I've already started looking at pieces. (I think I might know which dance piece I'm going to do! and I've started looking at options for flute) I think that last year was a good experience for me in that, while I didn't do as good as I hoped to do, I learned a lot and know better what to do this year. I know not to procrastinate and to prepare myself a lot more. Last year I had a bad case of nerves during my solo (I think due to not preparing enough) and I want to avoid that this year.

About the Title

One Day at a Time comes from something that Shaney told me last February. I was complaining to her about how I didn't want to go back to school after Grace Covenant's winter retreat and she told me to just take it one day at a time. This year, school is hard again and once when I complained, she reminded me to take it one day at a time. I've started taking that sugestion for school and applying it to other things as well. I can just take one day, give it everything that I have, and then at the end of the day, I know that I can do no better. We only get each day once, each moment once, we can't go back in time so we need to serve God every moment of every day and not just take life one day at a time, but one moment at a time.

I've never done this before

Hi!
Since I've never done this, I'm not sure what I'll write. But here's some stuff:
I'm a Sophomore, 16, and my birthday is October 26.
Favorites:
Christian Artist: Casting Crowns
Color: Blue or Green
Awana Games: Balloon, 3 - legged race (although I'm not very good at games)
Bible Verse: Phillippians 2:3-4 ~ Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conciet, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests but also to the interests of others.
I like this verse because it challenges me to not focus on myself and to instead focus on others.
Favorite past summit event: Expressive Arts last year with Shaney. Although it was hard to perform what I had just learned (Shaney taught me part of our dance about 15 minutes before we competed and as I wrote in the coments, that makes it so that I'm more determined not to procrastinate this year) I love to dance and it was my first time to dance at a competition. My flute solo was another interesting experience, I was so nervous that I forgot part of my solo!!

Other stuff: I've been in AWANA since cubbies (I think that would mean 12 years?) and on top of being in Varsity (or Journey as it's called) I'm a Sparks leader and in marching band. God has given me a passion for music as well as a desire to serve others.