Hey Ya’ll,
The name’s Nick (unless you are family, then it’s usually Nicholas – or Snickers – great nickname, eh?)). The first thing you should know about me is that:
- Since I would rather read bullet points and view pictures myself, I will try to implement those 2 things into my blogs (for my sake and yours!)
- Blame it on my attention span
Facts about Nick:
- Alberta boy, born and raised – I like Paul Brandt
- From High River, AB, Canada – we made it on to BBC news last June!
- I truly believe that hockey is the greatest sport
- Peanut butter is the greatest condiment
- Getting to the summit of a mountain is one of the greatest feelings
- I have a passion, er, borderline idiotic passion for running (I signed up for a 125K ultramarathon this August)
- I am graduating this year with a degree in biology – dental school is the plan after the race!
- I am the undergraduate class of 2014 valedictorian
- I love puns and cheezy Arnold Schwarzenegger one liners (spelled his name 1st try, nbd)
- I have a gene mutation; an X-linked recessive genetic disorder known as Red-green colourblindness
- I have been skydiving twice
- The next bullet point is important
- I believe that moving just the Wii remote in Just Dance 4 is cheating
- My favourite song to sing along to is “Bleeding Love” – Leona Lewis (Just ask my friends)
- I am the most clumsy person I know
(that statement not just based on this event)
- I have an older sister whom I love (who/whom? I dunno…)
- Even though we are very different
- God has blessed me with the 2 greatest parents I could ask for
- I love my friends, especially when they call me Rock Thomas (another one of my nicknames, don’ ask)
- My favourite verse is Romans 8:38 – There’s no greater love than His
- I am currently living in my comfort zone and I know it and I like it (which kinda (should!) scares me)
- Through reading the Gospel, God is telling me to get out of it (my comfort zone) – to simply experience
- So I signed up for the World Race September route 5
- It still hasn’t sunk in
Here are some photos that I hope will show you ‘who I am’.
My happy place (climbing a mountain with a good friend).
I think I missed the net…
My typical demeanor.
Camping in the Kootenay’s. My second happy place. My reaction after semi-successfully strapping down the dirtbikes.
I hope by reading this you got a sense of who I am, my sense of humour, and why I am doing the World Race.
Let’s get to some more serious stuff. I want to attempt to answer the question of “who am I?” That’s a tough one.
- I am a child of the One True King (thanks Matthew West), but seriously, it is the truth!
- Nothing can stand between God and I
- I am God’s, set apart to do His good works
- My identity is never in myself (I struggle with this – I am very independent. Independent from others and independent from, unfortunately sometimes, God)
- My life is not about me! It’s about Him!
- Through my relationship with Jesus Christ, all of the labels that the world has put on me; all the labels that I have put on myself fall off and feel as though they were never there in the first place.
- Replaced by His label of “loved, secure, significant”
That is who I am. Love and free to fulfill His will.
P.S. I’ll try to post some pictures of me with other people (family, friends, etc) soon!
