Two Totally Different Topics

Greetings,

First off lets discuss the Superbowl on Sunday. Boo Giants. I mean they played a good game but I still didn't want them to win. Their defense won that game for them. The whole game was a defensive battle, like none ever seen before. I was super impressed with the Giants defense in shutting Tom Brady down. I think that they may have been getting to his head, not just his body to sack him. So I really don't think that Eli Manning deserved the MVP award. Sure he threw for two touchdowns in the fourth quarter but he didn't do anything more spectacular than any other player and they sure didn't win because of that. All the credit should go to the defense that held the Pats to only 14 points, who averaged over 30 in the regular season. Someone more important like Michael Strahan should have won it.

The Pat's didn't play like they wanted it either. Sure their defense was amazing too , but what was with their offensive line? Why didn't they adjust in the second half to put a stop to the great defense of the Giants? They lost the game for the Pats. I mean it's a team game, but Brady was doing the best with what they were giving him. If his O line would have pulled it up a little bit he would have had more time to perform.

It's over now and I'm sure that we are going to hear about it for a long time. I just wanted to state my opinion that the MVP went to the wrong person. "Offense wins games, but Defense wins Championships."

Onto another topic: Lent. I haven't ever really gave up anything for Lent before but I feel like I should this year. so i have decided that I am going to post it on here so that I will that someone is expecting me to keep it up and not break it. I am not going to fast, as you all know how much I like my food, that wouldn't be a good idea. PLus we are going to the chocolate dessert buffet at the Empress on Friday. So I am:
(1) not going to snack or eat after supper (it seems like a simple thing that I should be doing anyway, but maybe with a forceful approach I will stop. It's hard when I'm studying so it should be good to give up.)

I don't really watch tv lots or anything, and I use the internet for school so I can't give it up, plus i have to keep in contact with people. So the other thing that I am going to do is not so much give up something but do something extra for the forty days of Lent. It was Leia's idea for it:
(2) to pray for 40 minutes a day. Another thing that I should already be doing, but it will be so good to just make a habit of praying for 40 minutes. I am positive that I won't run out of things to pray for.

While we are on this topic, there are a couple of things that I wouldn't mind some prayer for.
- my pastor's wife's mom has cancer and shingles and is in chemo again
- a girl on my bball team last year, Chelsea, just tore her MCL in both knees, her ACL in her good one and has cartilage damage in the bad one. I don't think that I could handle that. Plus she was playing bball at UCFV, she was that good.
- school for me. I am super stressed with midterms and all the work to do. I really just need to have some time to be social and relax a bit.

Those are the main things. Thanks to all the people who are constantly remembering me in prayer. I really appreciate it. I find it hard to ask for prayer sometimes, it's a humility thing I think. Now that I have just laid that all out for you on these two totally different topics I will go and stop procrastinating studying for my chem quiz that isn't going to go that well tomorrow. Later days!