Snowboarding with Jesus

Today is such a beautiful day in my neck of the woods.

Speaking of woods, I've been trying to convince my husband we need to move to Colorado when we graduate. My dream place is Breckenridge, Colorado, the capital of snowboarding. Probably not but it is definitely my capital. I've been trying to convenes him that it truly is his dream place to live he just doesn't know it yet. He has never been there and he seems to already know he wouldn't like it.

He is one of those guys who love adventure but is completely unmotivated because well there really isn't any adventure here in Oklahoma. The most exciting thing is the weather and how it changes so randomly. In Colorado there is always something to do. You can go hiking, boating, fishing, hunting, bike riding, jeeping, things he loves to do but does not ever get to do them.

I always talk to God about one day me and him are going to snowboard and go down the half pipe together. That is something I always think about. It started when I first read The Ishbane Conspiracy you'll just have to read it, a really good book. The book gave me a new light of how to look at heaven. That God really views Earth as beautiful and that heaven isn't a bunch of clouds but a more perfect version of Earth. I truly believe that I am going to snowboard with Jesus down a mountain.

I just can't imagine Heaven without Snowboarding. I believe that God loves it just as much as I do because it says in the bible that God places his own passions within us. If I’m wrong then I'm wrong but I really hope I'm not.

I guess it just goes to show that we all have different passions. I like to think about how my life could have been so different.

I've told you a bit about my story, and I promise to continue. I just really want you to get a feel of who I am and the person I have become because I think it will help you understand the story much better. I do not view my father as evil for punching a wall and I don't view my mother as evil for giving me away. I thank God for what they did for me, even if they didn't want to or had no control, I am thankful for my story, my life.

I wonder what kind of soccer player I would have been if my parents had kept me. I have natural athletic talent and I was born to play soccer but never truly did. So I wonder if I would be sitting here now writing this to you if I stayed. I wonder if I had earned a full ride soccer scholarship to some major university, if I would still want to be a teacher. I wonder if I would have ever tried snowboarding if I had stayed with my biological parents.

Would have my three dogs? Would I have a faith in Christ? Would I have ever met my husband? How would the lives of my family and friends have changed if I was never in their life?

A more recent question would be if I had moved to Colorado my jr. year of high school would I be at the Olympics now? I have been snowboarding since I was 13 years old but skiing since I was 3. So I've been on a mountain for almost 20 years of my life. I had the opportunity to move to Colorado my jr. year and I was going to move up there with one of my good friends but he got the opportunity to go live with his father, a chance that would never come again. I should have still gone but my mother was afraid for me to be up there by myself, and really I was too. I then decided that I wanted to go do my first two years of college in Breckenridge and work on the slopes. In Breckenridge they have a community college so I was going to go there for my basics and work the slopes and live at my parents house, but my father didn't want be so far away (he would miss me to much) that he made me promise that I had to go to college in Oklahoma for at least a year. I made the promise with ever intention to move to Colorado for my sophomore year. That didn't happen. My dad knew I would get stuck here and would decide to not go. I actually met my now husband my sophomore year and he changed everything.

So now not only do I wonder what kind of soccer play I would have been but I also wonder what kind of snowboarder I would have been. It's not really too late for me as a snowboarder but really honestly, I don't see myself moving up there and training within the next 5 years and maybe by then it will be to late for me to go to the Olympics. I want to have a family and kids, and I know they wouldn't hold me back but at the same time I wouldn't want to do that to them. I just want to get up in those mountains again. It's been over two years since I have been on a mountain and I miss it so much.

If nothing else I just want to move up there and snowboard with my husband and kids all the time but if that doesn't ever happen either I'll at least get to snowboard for eternity with Jesus.
The Adopted One.