Learn to Live

People are the substance of life. I like to think that the most important thing in a day is people, and since everybody has worth, their feelings matter. Learn to touch and love people, and you actually learn to live.

1 Corinthians 13 notes on love: (I can never read these enough)
Love is patient,
love is kind, and
is not jealous;
love does not brag and
is not arrogant,
does not act unbecomingly;
it does not seek its own,
is not provoked,
does not take into account a wrong suffered,
does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but
rejoices with the truth;
bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things.

In My Puddle

Someone is in deep sorrow tonight, at this same moment. He is standing in a quiet hospital room and weeping in the arms of another. For somebody, who has a soul, somebody near and dear to him has slipped into eternity, maybe a father, mother or even a wife. This precise moment this man is feeling great fear for the future. A future without a father or wife seems suddenly so uncertain. Later tonight, he will be lying restless in his bed trying to deal with the fleeting days of this life. So here I am, unable to see the needs of others...so consumed with my own days and time while this man is hurting and needs hope.

Here I am, walking through a puddle of trials, consumed with the mud on my pants, while this man drowns in an ocean of troubles. What have I said to the hurting? Nothing, and I know the One who has the answers and who has the hope...

Will we, who have hope, tell this man?

Six and Three

Football is now over. We finished our season with a record of 6-3 in which we played competitively. I can’t believe my sophomore football season is finished, it went so fast. I am not completely disappointed due to all the work I have to get caught up with now, but I most likely will not see many of my football friends during the off-season. I'll miss the guys. Also, I had several close senior friends who played their last collegiate game Saturday which we won 14-7 against Martin Luther College (who we hadn’t beaten in over 10 years). Those guys I won't play with again...Football is a special sport and I miss it already, but I have to focus now on catching up with school...

Season overview: http://www.mbbc.edu/page.aspx?m=384
Season Stats: http://www.umacathletics.com/stats/football/UMACFB06/HTML/MBBC.HTM