Well I will save you the suspense, I MADE IT! After 15 years of driving bobsleds, thousands of dollars or mine and my parents money, and blood sweat and tears in the weight room I made it. I am getting the chance to represent my great Nation in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. More importantly than that is the opportunity to spread the amazing word of God through my sport and success. Through the past few months God has taught me so many amazing things but one lesson stands out about the rest. I wish I had the power to make people do the right things or prevent them from doing evil but I see the only real way to help them is by example. God makes us stronger so we can speak through actions and not word or tongue. “John3:18 Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with deeds and truth”. I have discovered the only real way to affect someone and persuade then in the right God loving direction is to simply live by it. They will see you actions and Gods grace in your life and want a piece of that. They may not ever admit it to you and anyone else (that is their pride speaking) but your great example can do more to them than any words will ever do. I have been in some rough circumstances and difficult times these past months and by doing the right thing and keeping my mouth shut I have been blessed tremendously. I have also seen the reaction on others when I defy the normal and go against the world to show Gods grace and love. I try to remember that this world is only temporary and I have a blessed future to look forward too. It amazes me how God can still and always take the worst moments in our lives to bring about the best change and circumstances ever imagined. God you blow my mind every day.
In the ST Moritz race I did not finish as I hoped. I finished 15th in the 2man and 11th in the 4man. However these results may not seem too glorious, believe me they served their purpose. I moved my ranking up to 2nd in the world in 4man rankings because of the consistent results God has allowed me to have this season. We have one more World Cup this week in Igls Austria and then it’s to Vancouver Olympic prep time.
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