Skating :D

 


On March 7, 2016 I was thinking that skating is one of my favourite winter sports.  I do admit that I often only do it about once a year, but I really love every minute of it.  I remember as a young girl I took skating lessons – it was so fun being able to play games on the ice and learning how to skate.  Our instructor always made it exciting to be there.  I also remember watching Kurt Browning and Elvis Stojko growing up and wow, they were so amazing.  The tricks they could do were incredible.  I couldn’t take my eyes off the TV the whole performance as I was mesmerized by what they could do.

At one point I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to get my once a year skate in this year and this got me down.  I really wanted to go with my husband as I thought it’d be fun for us as a couple.  The days went by and we didn’t seem to be able to figure out a day to go.  I ended up feeling down for a short time as I thought my husband didn’t think about how important it was for me to go skating together. 

At one point I brought it up to my hubby about how upset I was that he didn’t seem to want to go.  He then explained to me the main reason he was discouraged to go.  It was that his feet hurt from skating even for a short time and not being overly stable on the hockey skates.  When I found out the real reason for the hesitation for skating this year my heart softened.  My first thought was that I didn’t want my husband to feel pain from his skates and that I could decide to not go skating.

My hubby thought I might react by choosing his point of view over mine, as to another reason he was hesitant about telling me.  He told me that he wanted me to choose me for once as he really did know how important skating was to me.  He told me this was something he wanted to do for me.  That brought me to tears.

I can tell you I was super excited as we decided that late Thursday morning that passed we were going to go skating at an outdoor rink nearby our place.   It was really a perfect skating day for me.  I really felt like God was smiling down on us.  I love it when fluffy snow comes down and it was as we were walking to the rink.  I didn’t think it could get any better than that until we got there and to my surprise no one was there, besides people that were playing hockey on the other boarded ice pad.

This got me so excited as that meant my husband and I would get our side of the rink to ourselves.  With the snow blowing on my face, hair, coat and clothes I couldn’t stop smiling as I glided, twirled and occasionally jumped on the ice.  It felt so freeing to be able to skate.  My husband didn’t quite have the same experience as me as his feet hurt and he had to really concentrate to keep his balance, but he did really appreciate seeing how incredibly happy I was in that moment.

We did even skate hand and hand together a couple of times, which was fun.  It really meant so much to me that my husband would do this for me even when it’s not his favourite thing to do.  I think it is important to do something for someone else that you yourself aren’t a big fan of can really show the other person how much you really care about them.  I don’t think you have to do something for someone else that you aren’t that into all the time, but it lets that person know that you know what is important to them.

Patricia  <3 J

 

Philippians 2:3-4     Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.   Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

 

Here’s a good song about our Lord’s mercy never fails us.  That all our days that we’ve been held in hands and because of that we will sing the of the goodness of our God.  And all our life He has been faithful and He’s been so so good to us.

 

“Goodness Of God” with Bethel Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f4MUUMWMV4&list=PL3whQX319DaB37iB8NZpJe206iSdpe3kc&index=122

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