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I'm a cowboy--
a professional cowboy.
I go to rodeos for a living.
I don't have a real job per se.
When I was growing up, I just liked everything that cowboys stood for:
cowboy codes, manners, ethics, just respect.
The more concrete they put down around us and less grass, the more being a
cowboy means to me.
I had no idea that I would be an 11-time PRCA world champion cowboy.
I'm expected to win when I show up.
And there's a lot more pressure on me now that I have been successful to
win, to keep winning.
And I just can't lose touch with why I do it in the beginning.
To be able to use the talents that God's given me to reach people and let
them know that there are cowboys out here that love the Lord.
I remembered starting back then.
It was hard.
I wasn't sure if this is what God had called me to do.
I knew I had success in the junior ranks, the college ranks.
And when I went to the pros, it was a rough couple of years.
I'd battled with that a lot if this is really what I was really supposed to
do because you pay your own way out here.
And I was running out of funds.
And things just started coming together.
It's a lot easier for me to know it's God because I feel like that there's
guys that are more physically adept to do what I do than I am.
Where I'm weak, He's strong.
And that means in all things.
God loves us so much.
He just wants to have a personal relationship for us.
He looks for that just daily, I love you, and just thankful heart, just
coming to Him with thanksgiving.
I've noticed that a lot more now that I've got a two-year old boy.
Nothings makes me happier.
And when he comes to me and hugs me and tells me he loves me, I think
God's the same way.
That's what we were put here for, for His purpose, and for His will, and
just to be thankful in all things.
I don't serve God for success.
I serve God because He gave up His son so that I would have eternal life with
Him in heaven.
At the end of the day, that's all that matters to just know that your friends
and your family and yourself are going to be in heaven because Jesus made
that sacrifice.
And all we have to do is believe.
The hard part is already over.
I'm Trevor Brazile and I am Second.