February 7, 2011

Thank you, Green Bay Packers. Thank you.

By Pastor Connie

I honestly do not know if I could convey to you the emotional drama that I went through yesterday afternoon. Finally, after years of waiting, hoping, wishing- my team was finally in the Super Bowl. And yes, I do call them my team. I realize that I have no financial investment in this team. Nor do I live, or have I ever lived in Wisconsin. But this team is my team. Somewhere in the last 28 years of my life, I developed a strong emotional attachment to this team. And yesterday those emotions oozed out of me during an intense four hours of gridiron.

I have to admit, at the end of week 12 during the regular season and all four losses were only losses of 3 points, I really wondered. I wondered how the team could make it if they were not going to finish games strong! But they did it. They pulled it together and came out of the wild card spot to win the Big Game.

It was an amazing game. And it got me thinking. Like I said, I don’t really have any investment in the Packers, but yesterday, you would have thought that my whole life was dependent on the outcome of the game. As my heart raced and my excitement rose, I started wondering about my passion for life and Jesus.

What would my life look like if I had the same passion and emotional investment in following Jesus as I did in following the game yesterday? Would something be different? What would be like if my excitement about worshiping Jesus with other people was at the same level as my excitement about watching the game?

What do you think? What might be different for you? Anything?….

About Pastor Connie

Connie grew up moving all over the States. Seeing the sites and experiencing the cultures across our country helped develop a love for traveling. Connie spent middle school and high school living the Northwest. After graduating high school, she attended Point Loma Nazarene University were she received a degree in Child Development. She earned her Master’s in Pastoral Ministry from Northwest Nazarene University and currently serves at Pastor to Children and Families in a church in Eastern Oregon. If she is not at the office, or out with elementary kids, or watching Upward basketball, she is filing her time with exercising, coffee shops, movies, and game nights. Currently she is reading Strengths Based Leadership (Tom Rath & Barry Conchie) and her life goal is to finish War and Peace by Tolstoy. Top movies: The Princes Bride, Joyeaux Noel, Despicable Me Top music: Derek Webb, Rend Collective Experiment, David Crowder Band, Tyrone Wells Top places to travel: San Diego, England, anywhere warm View all posts by Pastor Connie
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