One Game at a Time.

Crash Davis: It's time to work on your interviews.
Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: My interviews? What do I gotta do?
Crash Davis: You're gonna have to learn your clichés. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play it one day at a time."

Ebby Calvin LaLoosh: Got to play... it's pretty boring.
Crash Davis: 'Course it's boring, that's the point. Write it down.

You always here the saying in sports We gotta play it one day at a time, we aren't looking past the team we play tonight. I feel that this simple cliche sentence from sports, usually just called "coach speak" really rings true in how he should live our lives. If you change game to day I feel that is how we were meant to live. Especially when we are Christians, we are told not to worry and that God will bless us more than flowers of the field or the birds of the air; but many times I feel we fall short of this in what we do. In everything we do its important to know the mission you are on but not to set your eyes to as on the end prize; but your daily goal. I see this with so many things in my life; for example going to the gym and trying to eat healthier. If

I say that I am going to get in the best shape of my life and burn my body out for a week usually I will give up because I do not see results and feel worse. When really we should pace ourselves set simple goals in front of ourselves and fight for the battle we can win. I find this extremely important when it comes to eating right. The meal you eat now is the most important meal of your diet, focus on what you are eating and trying to make a healthier choice every meal and your going to come out better than trying to count calories at the end of everyday. One part of my life I see this also ring true is in my spiritual walk with Lord. If I try to do everything right and look past my current circumstances I get discouraged and fail. I feel that it is important in every moment to keep trying to fight the sins that we face at the moment, because with that day by day practice and focus we become stronger in the Lord and more like him. Living day to day allows to do the most with the few days we have on this earth. I have been encouraged by this same idea recently with my time on campus. In this past weeks I have started to lead surveys in Spanish and occasionally venturing out on my own to do a survey by myself. God has been right there with me the whole time creating good conversation and taking my still broken Spanish. I hope to continue in my life to look to do what I can accomplish and not lose before I start.