June 25, 2007
Living My Dream
by Elisabeth Freeman, Campus Life Magazine
Article Excerpt
There’s something different about professional snowboarder Kelly Clark. It’s not just her flips and tricks. Or her speed. Or even her success in the X Games or Winter Olympics (she won gold in 2002 and finished fourth in 2006).
Instead, it’s her dynamic and positive personality. “I love Jesus,” she says. “And I guess everyone can tell.”
It wasn’t always this way. “When I was younger I was never happy,” she said. She thought it would be better when she found success. But even after winning the gold medal, she still wasn’t happy. In fact, she felt worse. “I was lonely and depressed. I wanted to die.”
At one tournament, Kelly overheard other snowboarders talking about God. “They said God loved everyone,” she says. “But I wondered if he could really love me.”
Later that night, desperate and lonely, Kelly opened the Bible in her hotel room. It was the King James Version and she understood very little, so she went to the room of one of the girls she’d heard talking on the slopes. “I asked her if she could explain God and Christianity to me,” Kelly says. “God really began to move in my heart.”
Over the next few months Kelly began attending church while sidelined by a knee injury. Soon after, she accepted Christ. “It was the best day of my life,” she says. “No trophy, no medal and no amount of money can equal what Christ did in me that day.”
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Jade/Debbie says:
AWESOME article! I LOVED it!
You know, I was thinking about this just the other day–how that God in His great love and grace, meets us where we are. He knows we can’t reach up to meet Him. So, He reaches down to meet us, leaving our lives forever changed by His touch.
your friend,
Jade/Debbie