In our home, we love to watch sports.
I have to confess, I was never very sporty, I was a theater girl. My hubby, however, played all sorts of sports growing up, and it was only a severe knee injury that stopped him play football professionally.
My hubby's love of sports has meant that I have had to learn or cry, basically. So I have learnt. I have learnt the rules of snooker, and darts, (which I have grown to love) and of rugby league (I knew Union from my dad growing up).
I have ALWAYS love the Olympics though. Summer or winter, the athletes intrigue and mesmerize me. The things that the human body is capable of are just such a testament to God's amazing design.
I also know it's something that I could never do.
I sit writing this watching the women's Figure skating final, and right now, my heart is in my mouth!! One slip, or badly timed jump could ruin everything!! To work that hard for so long on something, all the hours of training, all the pain, the early starts lead to this for these women, (girls, most of them actually,) and if they fall, as many do, it's over.
You need to be a special kind of person to be an athlete.
I have great admiration for them, and I love to watch them, knowing that God puts different gifts and talents in us all.
They may pale at the thought of homeschooling 4 children!! (which is why I don't think about it!!)
It's lovely to know that God smiles on us all when we are fulfilling what He gives us to do....
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