Giving God the Glory..Volleyball

The regular volleyball season is over, and all we have left is districts. Wow, how this year went by so fast. I always thought to myself how high school would take so long to get through, but now I think about it and its been so short. High school has gone so fast, and soon many of my peers will be gone off to college, and starting their lives. I'm only a junior, and well..I only have one more regular season left of volleyball in my high school career. I was thinking..the end of my highschool volleyball career is coming up sooner than expected, but also I realized that this the beginning of my college life and volleyball career. I realized that I need to start now to play where I want to play, and that this is where everything gets serious. It's no fun and games now for me. Since my senior year is not far away, I'm determined to do all I can do to be the best of the best, and to play the best of my ability. I'm going to not only call myself an athlete, I'm gonna act like and athlete, and do what athletes do. I'm starting to eat right, and eat healthy. Exercise is a huge part of being an athlete too. I cant take breaks, I've got to push it to the limit, and work harder than everyone else. My favorite quote encourages me everyday that, "When your not training, someone somewhere is, and when you meet they will win." This gets me everytime. "To be the best you have to play the best, and to be hardest, you have to work the hardest." Any athlete can play be good at a sport, but "GOOD" doesn't satisfy me. I want to not only be good, I want to be GREAT, and what I mean by great is to be the BEST. But, the only way that I can do any of this, or have the desire in my heart, to keep this conditioning and training up is by mentally training yourself..and by GOD. GOD is who blessed me with my talents, and I wanna glorify HIM with what he gave me. Without HIM I am nothing. "I can do everything through HIM who gives me strength." Phillippians 4:13.