passion

Last night I came to the realization that the Lord has given me the gift of passion. I am so thankful for this! I know this is random but its just something i wanted to talk about. Last night was the region finals for girls and boys basketball. Our girls came into the tournament last in region and most people had there doubts about them getting past the first round. Well, we won that first round and beat a team that had solidly beaten us twice. The finals were exactly the same. We had lost to this team twice but our girls never gave up and beat them by two points in the finals. I say all of this because while these games were going on I was up in the stands cheering my sister on. I think that may be an understatement though, I was more like SCREAMING until my face turned red. I was passionate about the game; I wanted people to cheer. The fact that the court was below the stands and the girls could not hear us did not matter to me. These girls needed our support to get through the game. Two of my good friends were sitting next to me the entire game and im sure they were embarrassed by my yelling, but at the moment I didn't care these players were ahead and i wanted them to win. I eventually ended up standing up with another parent to cheer and we were constantly asking everyone else to stand up. I loved being so into something that i forgot about everything else in the world for that moment. I could not talk during the game because i was screaming so loudly. By the end of the game, my voice was just rasp and i was beginning to have a tension head ache for tensing up so much. No matter how badly my throat hurt from screaming or how badly my neck hurt from tensing up at every exciting play in the game it was all worth it to see the looks on the girls faces when they, fourth in region, came back to win region. I was passionate about cheering them on, but moreover they were fired up and passionate about basketball and that is what won them a region champion ship.