Archives for May 2012
Thought 05.29.12 BB Go to The Coach
Go to The Coach
I have always loved sports. Still do. In the sports world we learn about life! The ups, the downs, the planning, the execution, the preparation, the event, the victory—or the defeat. We try to do our best, but many times that isn’t enough. What do we do then? Give up?—or go to the coach? Every sport, especially team sports like football, has a coach. He is the person who can give you outside advice because he knows you and where you have come from and what you are and what you can be. The coach is invaluable. So, who is your “life” coach?
I grew up listening to outstanding LDS speaker Emmett Smith, a coach, tell about life lessons learned through sports. Here is one of his own stories—before he became a coach.
Brother Smith said, “I played football in high school. We were playing Amphitheater High School. The score was 7 to 6. We had the 6. Amphitheater had the 7. There were twenty-seven seconds left in the football game. We had the ball and 6 inches to go for a touchdown. Six inches! And we had four plays to score. Four plays!
You can FALL six inches in four plays, can’t you?—and score a touchdown! Not always. We tried our “goal line” plays. If you play football you know you have plays you try when you are down on the goal line. Well, we were on the goal line. We tried “12.” That’s where the “1” back went through the “2” position (football talk). Bam! We’re still six inches from the goal line. It’s now second down. So we tried “23.” That’s where the “2” back goes to the “3” position. Bam! We’re still six inches away.
Well, we have to do something. We’re now at third down. We’re going to throw what is called a “basketball pass” to me. That’s where I go over the goal line and Jim Kabashi, our quarterback, tosses it over the heads of everyone to me. I go up in the air, I’m waiting for the ball, easy catch—and the ball goes zip!—right through my hands and to the ground. The team is cracking up laughing, the other team is laughing because I should have caught the ball; it was an easy uncontested catch. There was nothing in the world keeping me from catching it. But the ball is lying on the ground now. And it’s fourth down. We’re still six inches short of our goal.
It’s fourth down and we have about nine seconds to go. We have one down left to score. I said, ‘Time out.’ And I went over to the coach. I said ‘Coach. We have tried every goal line play I know, and we can’t make a touchdown.’
He said, ‘That’s right. You have played every goal line play you know—but not every goal line play I know.’
He said look at this. And he draws it out on a board. I take it back in.
We score a touchdown!
We win the game!
I suggest when times are hard and you can’t score the goal, when you’ve done everything you know and still no success, and you’ve played every goal line play you have—call a time out! Go to the coach! He knows all the plays. That’s our Father in Heaven.
He knows ALL the plays!”
Alma 40:10
Doctrine and Covenants 88:41
1 Chronicles 28:9
Acts 15:18
Doctrine and Covenants 38:2
~Bruce Barton
Making your own Sticky Notes
Printing Your Own Scripture Sticky Notes
Below is a link to a sheet of blank Scripture Sticky Notes you can print and use on your own.
1. Click the Adobe PDF™ icon below.
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3. Cut out the Sticky Notes.
4. Write your content on the Sticky Notes (an example is included).
5. Place removable glue on the back of the Sticky Notes.
6. Put the Sticky Notes in your scriptures.
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Thought 05.21.2012 TB Do Your Knitting!
“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” ~ Joseph F. Newton
Creating and maintaining positive connections with our family and friends is the focus of God’s plan for His children.
He knows our greatest joys in life come from our relationships with others:
Falling in Love
Watching a Child Grow
even Lunch with a Friend.
But like everything worthwhile, it takes effort – and time.
Good relationships only happen when charity and forgiveness are applied. We must love as much as we want to be loved. And give more mercy than we expect to be given.
“And he commanded them that there should be no contention one with another, but that they should look forward with one eye, having one faith and one baptism, having their hearts knit together in unity and in love one towards another.” ~Mosiah 18:21 (emphasis added)
My challenge for you this week is to do your knitting! Say a kind word, comfort a friend, hug a child, and re-act with love not anger.
by Tiffany Birrell
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