Playoffs!

  Hello!  So we have officially finished the first round of the playoffs.  We played a team in the league called the Brookfield Elks.  We had all the games last week. Monday, tuesday, thursday and Sunday.  We won all 4 of the games so that means that we "swept" them.  Meaning we were playing a 7 game series so we won all 4 games in a row and they dont have a chance to come back in the series and win.  Most of you know from the previous post that i hadn't played Monday, Tuesday or Thursday.  But in Thursdays game things got a bit rough and one of our guys got a 2 game suspension and also one of the guys on the team hurt his ankle a little, nothing big but just tweaked it a little.  So Sunday i got to play!  I was very thankful for the opportunity to play.  I played forward that night,  i was hoping to get to play Defense but Jeff put me on the 3rd line instead.  I really liked the guys that i played with and i thought that we worked really well together.  Through the first period we were rolling through all 4 lines.  Then in the second period there were a lot of penalties so i didn't get to go out.  Then in the 3rd period we were back to regular shifts again until they scored 2 goals in the 3rd to tie the game up.  So jeff shortened the bench up a bit and i didn't get to go out for the last 6 min or so.  I thought that i played really well last night.  I did well, i can really only remember one mistake that i made the whole game and the coaches didn't say anything to me about me playing bad.  So i thought that i did well yesterday.  The temptation to be disappointed about not playing D started to creep in after the game, but the Lord was quick to remind me to be thankful for what i did get, and with that more can be given.  I just came to a point where i was thankful to dress for that game and get the opportunity to play.  

   I believe i mentioned something about asking the Lord to give me an opportunity to shine (something that my Mother received from the Lord to be asking for) in my last post.  And i do believe i shined last night in the game, but my hearts desire is to play D.  So i still would like an opportunity to shine on D, in the meantime i will certainly shine playing forward but i want to be playing Defense and i want to be the top defenseman.  So i am expecting the Lord to do that for me in the next week, couple weeks, sometime soon!  

   I was just talking to my mom yesterday and saying, its easy to be like "Yeah next year i am going to be a top defenseman on a  Junior A team, being on the Power play, penalty kill,  playing everywhere!"  And i do believe that will be the case for next year.  But it takes faith for me to say,  "I believe the Lord can do a miracle in these next couple of weeks and cause me to rise to the top and be the top defenseman on this team right now!"  I trust that He and He alone can turn things around for me here, when everyone seems to be against me,  HE IS FOR ME!   We see that a lot in the Psalms with David talking about all these enemies that are coming against him, but the Lord was always for him.  And now it seems that the coaches arn't necessarily for me, but thats okay,  i know that HE is for me and that is truly all that matters.  So i expect to see some things change here soon in my situation for my good! 

I am still standing on that scripture in Micah 7:7, its excellent! 

 But also James 4:10 in the Amplified    "Humble yourselves [feeling very insignificant] in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you [He will lift you up and make your lives significant].  

Significant - sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy. 

And also i like   2 Cor 12:9 in the message.  I love it in the NASB and the Amplified, but i just saw it in the Message today and i really liked it as well.  So you guys can look it up on there later on,  (you can check it out on  biblegateway.com if you dont have a message bible).  

I plan on writing again soon when i know more about the next series.  I dont know when it starts or who we are playing yet.  Love you all.  Bye for now