Erin Broestl
Episode 224
15 MAY 2023
She is a skier, participating in downhill, cross-country, and waterski as well as snowboarding. At the University of Michigan, she had competed in giant slalom, which followed her junior high and high school years when she ran the mile in track, half mile, and the 2-mile, for a combined total of six years in track, including lettering in track and field. Plus, she even did three years on the swim team in junior high. She is a mom of a large Catholic family yet still ice skates, swims, and hikes. She is also a blogger and the author of a book called, “God Made the Moonlight.”
Notable guest quotes:
“I sort of feel like that was my very first experience of God’s miraculousness in my life.”
“It was further proof for (my parents) and new proof for me… that yes, the Lord is watching, the Father in heaven sent my own father back to get me because that was pretty important right then.”
“I was talking to God and walking around campus, going, ‘Okay, Lord, where do you want me to go’… and I, finally in my travels, my steps took me to the Newman Center right off campus, and I went to Mass there, and it was this indescribable feeling of being home.”
“I’m Irish-Catholic, I should continue the tradition, the heritage, the family, my one grandmother was Irish-Catholic.”
“We just loved naming our kids and having them is such a blessing. I can’t say enough how letting God plan your family is hard, yes, but it’s worth it.”
“I had a friend in high school… she and her older sister and both her parents… I appreciated their sacrifice and their service to other skiers, and I love this sport so much that I want people to be comfortable on the slopes, but I also want to be able to help them.”
“It occurred to me that God is really calling me to this because when you’re surrounded by accidents or if you’re an EMT or a paramedic or whatever, there’s always somebody in the background hopefully who’s praying for you in an accident even if you don’t know it and we’re all connected as human beings and while I’m down there bandaging somebody up in the snow on my knees as a ski patroller, I can also pray for them and they don’t even have to know about it, but it’s between me and God, and God and them.”
“I’ve always been kind of that prayer warrior type. I have a longstanding prayer conversation with God.”
“‘Be still and know that I am God,’ that is the quote that keeps coming back to me.”
“You don’t want to get to heaven and stand in front of Jesus and have Him say, ‘I wanted to give you these gifts of children and you said No’.”
“God will give you the gift of understanding when you need it.”
“We pray with (the saints) to Jesus for His intercession because we can’t do anything without Him.”
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