2010-2011 Season

Hello all! This is the start of a brand new season for me. I am looking forward to it thoroughly. There has been a lot going on in the last 2 months, i am sorry i have not updated the old blog until now. I will attempt to give you a summary of the last two months.

I got to school at the end of August, this semester i am living in the "Hockey House" still, which i am enjoying. However, next semeseter i will be living with a very nice family from my church up here. Their names are Dennis and Carol Forehand. They have a big house and they have offered me a room in their house for pretty much nothing, which i am very thankful for. They live about six minutes from the rink, so it wont be a bad drive back and forth to campus. I will move into their house sometime before christmas so when i get back from christmas break my stuff will already be all moved into my new room. When my parents come up to visit they always stay with Dennis and Carol, they are very nice and open up their house to my folks all the time. Carol and Dennis have six kids, all are older and mostly married (except one). One of her boys (Nate) is a very good friend of mine up here, we spend a lof of time together.

The school year has been going well thus far, i am doing well in the majority of my classes. I am currently having a little trouble in my Anatomy and Phisiology class, i am doing well on my lab practicals, however, i am not doing well on my lecture tests. So i have one more left in the semester so i need to do well on it! ha. Other than that school has been good.

The hockey season started last weekend. We played two home games last weekend and two home games this weekend. We won two of the games and lost two, so we are 2-2 right now. Which is not a bad start. I really like all the incoming freshman and i really like the direction of the team much better this year. I feel as though the whole attitude of the team is much much better this year.

So A LOT has happened hockey wise over the last week and i will not be able to go into all the details. Basically, we have played those four games thus far, however, i have not dressed for a single game yet. Last weekend they put up the dress list for the game and i was not on it and i was extremely upset. However, later that night after work i needed to meet with my Father personally. I was so distraught and i needed Him and thankful we have a Father who hears us and comforts us. So after some very excellent encouragement from my mother, i set aside time to meet with the Lord. As i was spending time with the Lord, the Lord urged me to listen/watch a video podcast of Joseph Prince. I had downloaded the message a couple days earlier and i knew the Lord wanted me to watch it right then. So i did and it was amazing! It was such a delivering word, the title of the message was called "boast of Gods love for you, not your love for Him". It would take me to long to give you every detail of the sermon, but what i received from it was that its not right for me to boast of my love for the Lord, that does not bring me to a closeness with God. However, i have the opportunity to boast of the fact that He loves me so much and all that based upon Jesus, not based upon anything i can do. I cannot earn His love, just like i cannot loose His love. Its amazing and it is a freeing position to be in.

I recived that from the Lord last weekend and i did well not dressing in those two games, then this weekend i had an opportunity to go deeper in that truth by not playing again this weekend. I did pray with my pastor up here last month concerning the upcoming season. We agreed together and asked the Lord that this would be my best season thus far. My best season. So i am expecting that and even though i have not dressed in four games thus far i am looking forward to see how the Lord will cause this to be my best season!

We have a game tuesday this week and then one on friday. I will update agian after those two games! Hope you were encouraged and thanks for taking the time to read!