Grateful for the Life I Live

I am so grateful for the life that I live. I know I talk about this often but living in the moment has brought me so much joy. I have just gotten home from the rodeo here in Steamboat. I spent the night with my mom and sister at a local resutraunt and then we met my dad at the rodeo. Today I was able to play hockey and golf. My dad calls it the “country club life” . I am so incredible grateful for everything in my life. The people, the places I live and the experience I receive. I have learned over the past few months that happiness isn’t sought it is earned and through God and your faith in God anything is possible.

I look at my life and I think that everything has happened for a reason. I didn’t play Division I college hockey because I was meant to find my home in Divison III, I had a blood clot in my lungs so that I was able to be blessed with the opportunity to play college hockey for six years. I broke up with who I thought was the love of my life to be able to find myself and continue my dream of playing hockey after college. My team fell apart my first year of professional hockey so that I knew that I wanted to play in the league that I was in the SDHL. The team I played for the next season was so terrible I learned the lessons of how coaches impact the lives of others and how I want to be the best coach for players that are coming through the game, and that I want to continue to play the game that I love so that I am able to impact the game in a positive way. Every hardship that has happened to me has happen for a reason and God is leading me to the places that I need to go. Every plan I have had has been changed, However, It has been changed in a way better then I every thought possible. God is my faith and my power and he is leading me to where I am destined to be.

As I look back on the times that I thought my world was ending, I always had a faith that things would work out. I always new that through all the struggles that I would find who I am supposed to be. I have found that person. I have found who I am supposed to be. I have found my faith in what will be will be and for that I am forever grateful. Cheers to summer of 2024 coming to an end and to the new memories this year will bring.