The Battle in My Mind

Every encounter in life can promote growth. This includes even those unfortunate circumstances. If you analyze  every capacity of your life you will understand the dimension to which each facet can contribute to your development . Sports have always been a huge factor in my life as I enjoy competition. The indescribable rush that occurs as you mentally prepare and focus  is absolutely necessary to give your best effort. Aha....I've already given two life lessons to learn from it...  Control your rush and  anxieties and you can focus more appropriately. Focusing plays such a major role in life because there are many distractions available to guide one off course. Being from the south, there are only a few common  sports that I did not seriously compete in during school. Those include soccer, golf, and swimming. However, volleyball, basketball, track, tennis, softball, cheerleading, and  powerlifting were all a part of my sporting resume'.  Although t...

Death is never an easy situation for me to overcome. My mind begins  hyperextending from the myriad emotions of denial, numbness, empathy, confusion, surprisingly gratefulness, and the list continues. This past encounter with the death of my grandfather taught me so much about myself and my family. You never know what you take for granted until it is no longer available to you. I never valued voicemails so much until that was the only opportunity I had to listen to a loved one's voice. I never valued watching someone inhale and exhale until I watched as breath exited my grandfather's lifeless body for the final time. This experience has been bitter sweet. I will miss my grandfather tremendously, but I am aware that he is no longer in pain and is cancer free. On the contrary,  I'm so grateful for my family and the spiritual strength that I have gained through this process. I have never felt God's presence so much in my lifetime. He is truly a comforter and peace in the...

Forgiveness Dealing with forgiveness may be one of the most difficult challenges in life one can experience. It seems absolutely illogical to forgive someone who has stabbed you in the back, deceived you, hurt your family member, etc. "Turn the other cheek" you say. Yea it's biblical but not the easiest thing to do. Because I have experienced many encounters of dealing with forgiveness, allow me to speak from my own truth. It's completely human for you to want to seek revenge or wish evil on someone but I have learned revenge is a revolving door, therefore seeking revenge is inflicting self harm in a way. You see, thinking about ways to seek revenge drains a lot of your energy and is completely pointless. We say "but how is it fair for someone to harm me and I am just supposed to let it go". That doesn't make sense. Well let's get this straight. Life is not fair. Things will not always make sense. Guess what favor isn't fair either. But it i...