I am not very good at writing and definitely not good at keeping up with a blog. So much has happened in our lives since my last post. We moved into our new home and are SLOWLY decorating it and making it ours.
In the last couple of days Coach was named head football coach. He has always been the head coach (as long as we have been married) but when we moved to NC a year ago some crazy things happened and he spent the last year as an assistant. I questioned God (in a respectful, please enlighten me kind of way). Primarily because i know my husbands gift and his ministry. As always God knows best. So one year later he is going to be the head coach.
While i am not a great writer I do want to start documenting the blessings, and spiritual markers that God walks me and my family through. This blog is a great way to look back as see God working.
I am coaching again (after sitting out for 2 years). Of course when i come back I do so in full force. I will be coaching the middle school team, the competition team and helping with two teams at Wake Forest All-Stars
This time around (i haven't coached in a school since I left Miami in 2006, well i helped at Calvary for one year but haven't had my own team) my focus and end goal is so much different. While my goal was always to build character and point what we did towards Christ I am not so sure that I did that efficiently. This time around I will be purposeful about it. I can't remember what my past teams have won, what the routines were like and I wish i could say that I made an impact on their lives but I am not so sure i did. I hate to say it but it really was about cheerleading. I expected good behavior, excellence and morality but I am not so sure that I spoke the Word into their lives like I should have. This time around I want to be able to look back and see girls that are living for God and impacting their community. I want to know that I was intentional in my words and actions and that the PRIMARY reason that i coached them was to bring them to a closer relationship with the LORD. My prayer is that the Lord give me a word to share with the team each week.
Don't get me wrong I am going to kick their tales and they are going to get some cheerleading done and look amazing but that will be our secondary goal. We will do it and do it well because it pleases God.
