Day 31: Where We Go From Here

Happy Halloween! And happy Day 31 of the daily posts through the month of October. With the conclusion of this month, I just want to take some time in this post to briefly talk about some of what I learned and got out of this month, as well as what's next. I started the daily...

Day 30: God’s Story, Not Ours

I'll start this post out by saying that the original idea for this post came from the book Crazy Love by Francis Chan, so I'll be paraphrasing a lot of that. However, I'll also be sure to interject a lot of my own thoughts. In one of his chapters, Chan talks about how a lot of...

Day 29: Playing With No Pressure

Sometimes, people thrive under pressure. Certain types and amounts of pressure have a way of just making things work just right. Other times, as I've learned in soccer, pressure can tear you apart from the inside. Now that my senior soccer season is over, I can look back and realize it. My mind was so...

Day 28: Where I Saw God Today

Today was a rough day at regionals. We played University of Delaware and Rensselaer Polytechnic. We lost 1-0 and 2-1. The first game was a loss after Delaware scored on a penalty after a questionable handball call. The second game, we took a 1-0 lead in the second half, but then I got scored on...

Day 27: Having Structure

One of the most helpful things I’ve found in my life in helping to keep track of what all is going on is to fall into a routine. Part of what is so appealing to me about routine is knowing that there’s a structure to my day that I can follow. To some degree, I...

Day 26: Head Space

Lately, I've had a lot of different things going on all at once. I have a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. Effectively, I'll also be getting no work done this weekend as I'm headed with the club team here from Messiah to Delaware for our regional tournament. It's a...

Day 25: Trust

Trusting people, particularly in relationships, used to be really difficult for me. One relationship in high school where I was cheated on twice was enough to severely damage my ability to trust. For a while, it affected my ability to trust in people at all. Eventually, I could begin to loosely trust others, but it...

Day 24: Thoughts of a Goalkeeper

Soccer and goalkeeping have been on my mind a lot, so that's what I'm talking about tonight. I read a book some time ago that I found outstanding called A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke by Ronald Reng. The story details the life of Robert Enke, a professional goalkeeper who fought his war with...

Day 23: Different vs. Unique – Real Talk #3

I think the system for how people who are battling depression get treated is pretty messed up. From the time that I was first diagnosed with depression, even in a mild form, I felt like it was told to me in a negative connotation. It always felt like it was told to me as if...

Day 22: Church

Church has always been an interesting topic for me. I've often found myself in a state of being very back and forth on my opinion of church. I'm not going to lie, for a very long time, I was not a big fan of the church scene. When I was not making the wisest decisions,...