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Practicing Success

I used to coach ice hockey and I was fairly good at it. My teams would consistently beat teams that were significantly older and more experienced than us.

I once took over my son’s baseball team mid-season after the coach fell ill. Up to that point, the team was at best a .500 ball club. After I took over, the team began to win nearly every game and we eventually made it to the league championship game only to lose by a run or two. We did this despite my knowing absolutely nothing about baseball.

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Bumper Stickers

I just got back home after being away for a few days. On the way home I had to drive up I-95 in the Northeast. If you know anything about this road you will know that parts of it are like driving in a Nascar race but without the rules or the sportsmanship.

While driving I noticed a car with a bumper sticker that said “Choose Civility”.

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Looking Forward

“Keep your eyes forward, Mr. Laydon,” the nuns used to say back when I was in grammar school. Once you heard this, you didn’t dare look anywhere else.

Boy, were we afraid of those nuns. They used to tell us that our parents signed a paper that gave them permission to hit us if we were bad. I don’t know if it was true or not but every once in a while we would get a whack from a ruler and we sure didn’t run to our parents crying because we probably would have gotten another one when we got home. Ahh… the good old days!

How was I, just a mere child with raw knuckles, to know back then that those nuns were, probably unknowingly, giving me some pretty good life advice?

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Tears of Jesus

20 mothers and 20 fathers wept. And, with them did the world.

In a story that has become all too familiar in our crazy world, a man who chose evil over God a week ago Friday brought Jesus, too, to tears.

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When the Wheels Fall Off

There are times when we’re cruising down the road of life thinking everything is going just great. We seem to know who we are, where we want to go, and how we’re going to get there. And, just when our destination seems to be coming into sight – BAM! Everything seems to go wrong and it feels like the wheels just fell off our car right in the middle of our journey.

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