Halloween Bowling

Halloween is full off dressing up, goofing off, scaring people...and...bowling?
The bowling part is becoming a tradition at Messiah College with two sport teams, men's soccer and lacrosse team. Coming into the third year the soccer team has been dominant winning two years in a row.
But its not all about the bowling, the costumes make or break the event, and this year they were Grade A.

The Freshman: Baby Rabbits
The Sophomores: Tetras
The Juniors: Seal Team 6
The Seniors: Angry Birds

The Senior's Angry Bird..to be posted

Overall, it was an awesome night with the worst score coming from our own Jarrett Weaner with a whopping 54, and best from James Baden with a 172. The best group costume went to the Juniors and Seal Team 6. 

Finally, the most important thing, the winner of the bowl off, for the third straight year was the soccer team, winning 112 to 102.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. John 13:34

Be Grateful

Soccer can be a cruel sport, one that offers you so much when it is present, and one that when absent can drive you crazy. Yet, the sport can teach you many life lessons regardless if it is present or not. One that it has taught me this weekend was to be grateful for everything on and off the field.

During the game this weekend one of my good friends, and senior winger Kent Ramirez, went down with an ankle injury, which was his second one this year. When he went down everything around me changed. I have seen a lot of injuries in my time, but this one was different. It was different because Kent, was a senior, and most likely played his last minutes as a Messiah soccer player. 

His injury made me think that nothing can be taken for granted. That God has allowed us the ability to play an amazing sport such as soccer. And you never know when something like an injury can happen, and take you out of the sport. That every time you step out on the pitch, you need to play like it is your last, and love the game, like it was your first.

Soccer has its evil moments, and yet it has those crazy moments there is something greater. The light, enjoyment, and free flowing it provides makes it something you have to love and not take for granted.

Drive All Night

This song on NeedToBreathe's new album is becoming an instant favorite of mine.

I aint lookin for a free ride home, back to the middle,
I need a new locale, I need a girl that calls me baby,
I need to know if she can save me.

I need somewhere I can drive all night, out into the darkness,
Follow the headlights down, I've got know if they can take me,
Ive gottta know if they can save me.

Focus in every word, Change my path,
Maybe I could leave a mark,
Try and prove the poets wrong
There must be time, Maybe we could be the song to march us on

I aint lookin for a free ride home, back to the middle,
I need a new locale, I need a girl that calls me baby,
I need to know if she can save me.

I need somewhere I can drive all night, out into the darkness,
Follow the headlights down, I've got know if they can take me,
Ive gottta know if they can save me.

Beg the Book to turn the page
Cause I get stuck where the villains get away.
Somewhere in this wretched tale, there must be a line where the victim get his way, just one time.
Oh I'll get mine.

I aint lookin for a free ride home, back to the middle,
I need a new locale, I need a girl that calls me baby,
I gotta know if she can take me.

I need somewhere I can drive all night, out into the darkness,
Follow the headlights down, I need to know where they can take me,
Ive gottta know if they can save me.

Drive All Night (yeah Baby Just), Hold On Tight (Oh and you can) , Close your eyes (yeah and), we can say goodbye.
Drive All Night (yeah Baby Just), Hold On Tight (Oh and you can) , Close your eyes (yeah and), we can say goodbye.