Davids Hockey Decade

 Hello, friends, family, and readers of our blog!!

     I am David the 3rd child. I am here to talk to y'all about my hockey career so far.
 I am 14 years old and I play 14u bantam major AA hockey, the name of my team is the Dallas Junior Hockey Association Penguins

  I started off my hockey career with 1 year of learn to skate classes. After that I moved to 1 year of mini mites and I played 3 years of mites. When I was old enough, I tried out for my first select team, the Dallas junior stars. I played 2 years of A level squirts for them. I moved up onto a better team for my PeeWee years and played for the Dallas penguins A & AA level. I played for the Dallas Stars Elite AAA for my bantam minor year and now I am back on the penguins AA for bantam major. If you have not been counting that brings us to a grand total of ten years playing the wonderful sport of hockey. Two years ago, i had a set back in my development, it was my second year of playing for the penguins just 1 month after practices started and we hadn't even had our first game when I contracted bacterial meningitis. I had to spend a week in the childrens medical center of Dallas getting treatment. it took over a month to recover and I ended up loosing 15lbs and missed Sep through December which is alot of the season. But now I am doing great and I am healthy as ever. This year will be interesting,  I am going to a public-charter school this year called ischool high with 7 other of my friends and we will all be freshmen in high school this year. We are going to go to our classes from 8:00 to 12:45 then we will leave straight from there to a hockey academy where we will play hockey from 1:30 to 4:00 we will do this 4 days a week and on top of that we will have team practices and games. I will also play highschool JV for the Denton County Spartans with my little brother James.  It will be the  first time ever that me and James will play on a hockey team together so me and him are super excited. I hope you enjoyed my story of my first decade of my favorite thing...hockey!

      some links i find interesting:
http://stars.nhl.com/ http://www.usahockey.com/  http://www.djha.com/

My how time flies. So what's new? ... lots. The time has come to reignite our life log. The lack of updates on our journey can be attributed to many things. Time, Focus, Frustrations and Failures to name a few. All valid reasons with merit and all worthy of introspection. So as we kick off 2016, why not give it a whirl?
Speaking of 2016, like most people I contemplated my annual resolutions. Screw that, this year I ain't making any. I'm tired of year after year trying to make a better me. Be a better me (husband-dad-friend-co-worker-employee-Christian), Lose weight, get in shape, read more, be nice, study the Bible, make more money... blah blah. What usually happens is some temporary (well intentioned but not really meaningful) change that leads to long lasting frustrations. I've realized that I am always going to be me with all the same struggles and triumphs that make me-me.
Instead, my simple 2016 motto. Therefore, if anyone is In Christ he is a new creation". 2 Cor. 5:17ff. I want to learn to trust the fact that I have been made exactly how my savior Christ wants me to be. I want to accept my faults and fears and learn to proclaim them for what they are-namely satans attempt to convince me that his lies about me are insurmountable so that I will forget the truth of who I am In Christ. I want to learn to battle his lies with the truth of Gods Word and celebrate my ever evolving newness In Christ. I am working to shed the grave clothes that keep me in the tomb of death and darkness and walk in the newness of light and life In Christ. If Christ is in me, there can be no room for satans lies to take hold. Oh it wont be easy, I need to see someone different when I look in the mirror, I need to see other people differently, I need to see God differently. Lets see where this goes.....