For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:21
Last night Alyssa Liu won the Gold Medal in Women’s Figure Skating. She is the first woman to win Gold since 2002 when Sarah Hughes won. She has been skating since she was 5 and at 13, she became the youngest female at the U.S. women’s figure skating championship and won that title. She also was the first American woman to land a quadruple jump. But by age 16 she was finished with skating. reason, she just couldn’t do it anymore because she was satisfied and wanted to do something different.
So in 2022 with full trophy cabinet and medals she retired. She did the things every teenager loves to do and was enjoying life. Until she went on a skiing trip in 2024 with friends. It was on the mountain something awoke inside her and she wanted to skate again. So she went to a rink began to skate and she landed a double-axel and something awakened once again. It took her hours to talk her former coach into taking her back and beginning her career again. But no matter what he said to try to dissuade her, she gave him well thought through answers he couldn’t ignore. She was back on the ice, but this time she was there because she loved skating and she was going to do it her way.
It wasn’t about the wins or the trophies and medals, it was only for the love of skating, how it made her feel to share this gift with others. And most of all how they enjoyed watching her take command of the ice with such joy and passion. As she went into the finals, she said she wasn’t at the Olympics to win medals, she was there to be with people and share her love of skating with others. The pressure was off for she was treasuring her skating gift and her heart was in it fully. She skated a nearly perfect program because her treasure was using the gift she had been given simply to bring joy to and inspire others. So what is your treasure? What has the Lord gifted you with that you can give it your whole heart and in the process bring joy to others. If you don’t know, ask Holy Spirit He will gladly reveal it to you.
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