We started practices this week at Rochester College. This may be my most favorite time of the year. Everything is new and exciting, players are fired up to get going and coaches are fired up because players are out of shape. Every pre-season I get the chance to build new relationships with new players, its just a fun time for me. Its sort of like a conversion experience for me each new season. I am excited and on fire at first and then there will come a time when I am not so on fire. There are times when I would just rather not be around the gym and the guys and I just want to hide away for a time. I experience those times in my walk with Christ. There are times that I would just rather hide away from the Lord for a time. It is then that I have to find renewal in His love, and I pray that I find that renewal daily and not experience those times of hiding from the Lord.
My prayer each new basketball season is that the Lord puts in my life a young man who needs to see Christ lived out in the world. That Christ would let the young man/men see that following Him is not a life of rules and things that you can't do, but rather a life of freedom and newness and excitement. And I pray that I can be a great light for Christ, and now with a child to care for that I will be a great example to him.
So it begins...
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go get'm coach
Coach, I know you will impact your players. I know the impact you made on Josh's family and on Josh. Today, we were blessed to have Blessed at our table. Tori helped Will and Tex move recently. The team is definitely different this year, and you will be missed, but we know you will be a blessing where you are.
oh yeah - my prayer is that Max will run into coaches just like you as he goes through his athletic years. you're awesome, brian.
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