Snowboards, Wipeouts, and Everything in between

So that is definitely not me, but we just finished our first day of boarding! I forget how much I love the snow, mountains, and snowboarding. This is also our first full day of spring break in Steamboat and it has been filled with great memories as well...

This morning we all woke up on our own, and went down stairs to have coffee and time with the Lord. I am incredibly blessed to be surrounded my Godly women that spur me on to want to pursue Him harder. (I think that its great to have friends encourage us to spend time with the Lord, but please check your motives in that you're not wanting to just read the bible in front of others, just so they know you are reading the bible. I have definitely been guilty of that before).

We hit the slopes, and had so much fun with everyone. One thing I love about snowboarding and skiing is that you get to be with all your friends, yet it's such a time to yourself as well. Another thing I love are the ski lifts. Well sometimes I dread them because I ALWAYS fall! It's genuinely so funny, haha, but I also love them because they allow you to just take in God's creation(never forget to look back when you're going up and see the view!) and potentially get to meet new friends from around the country. While on some lifts today, we met Mary Beth from Colorado, Betsy from Nashville, and a father and son from New Jersey. I just want to encourage you to take advantage of those 15 minutes you have to meet someone.

 The first part of the day was filled with falls and wipeouts, some scary ones and hilarious ones too, but you just got to keep a smile on your face :) After a fun lunch with all our friends we hit the slopes again, only this time I realized I forgot to put sunscreen on(don't tell my parents)...oops! Tomorrow I will have to lather it to make-up from today. I also decided to listen to music while boarding and it was the neatest thing to be able to praise God through worship while boarding. I only wore one headphone in so that I could hear what else was going on.

Now I am sitting in our room, Julie's napping, some girls are reading, and all of us our resting our bodies. Let's just say I won't be surprised if I can't move in the morning. All the girls are about to go to dinner in an hour, hopefully I'll keep you updated more often :) Here's some scripture I read this morning, and even in a small way it applies to all of us here because it's so easy for us to feel dehydrated and want some water while in the mountains, yet He is our wellspring of life.

 ⁷ When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” ⁸ (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

 ⁹ The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

 ¹⁰ Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

 ¹¹ “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? ¹² Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

 ¹³ Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

John 4:7-13