a 13 tournament lesson

Hello everyone!! November 10th, 2012 was the first tournament of the season. Given it was only a Round Robin (or a practice tournament for you non NCFCAer's) but it still was an awesome tournament. In reality it was my favorite tournament I have had in all my three years of competition. This round robin was my 13 tournament ever, and what I have seen in the past is that I only have a good tournament if I do well at that tournament. My two favorite tournaments over the last two years of competition, were the two tournaments that I broke at. Russia Year it was Emerald city, and last year it was Olympia. Two awesome tournaments, but this last one surpassed them all. The whole reason for this started about two to three weeks before the tournament. I emailed Mrs. Miller and told her that I was available to be on worship for the Round Robin. She replied saying yes, but she also said that she wanted me to be prepared before hand by being completely and utterly focused on God. My first thought to this was, "of course I will. I am a Christian so my life should always be focused on God." On Saturday morning, I wasn't focused on God. My focus was getting to the tournament on time, and getting my debate stuffs ready for the day. My mind wasn't focused on God until I realized that I had forgotten all the stuff I needed to lead worship. We turned around and rushed back home. In my mind I was thinking some very non christian words because I was so stupid an late. Then it hit me. Why am I like this? This isn't what I am supposed to be doing. My heart  needs to be on God. In that moment God focused my life on him. It was absolutely amazing. From then on the rest of the day, I can honestly say that I was focusing on God. Now I wasn't thinking of him every second, but I let him take control of my life through that tournament. I let Him do what He willed, and boy was it fun! I didn't do super awesome at this tournament, I was about average. However, I learned so much that day, that it was easily the best tournament ever. The only sad part is it took me 13 tournaments to actually learn that God needs to be in control of everything, otherwise your life will have no joy. God is the giver of all joy. Success can be joyful, but success only comes from the Lord. There you go my little Tidbit for the day. Adios, Salutations and good bye!!!