Don’t pick at it.

We leave for our second game of flag football in about 20 minutes. Today is picture day so we get to stand around in the heat waiting for the team to get there individual pictures and then the team picture taken. The last three years I have coached T-ball and Coach Pitch Baseball. The kids were younger and a lot less patient. For me the big issue will to relax enough before the game. Last weeks game was not one of my better efforts.

I know less about coaching football than I knew when I started coaching T-ball. T-ball was great! I could focus on one kid at a time, teaching them to hit a ball. Sure we spent time catching the ball, running bases and even throwing someone out. But pride swells in a man when he sees his kid hit a baseball that was pitched. I remember that pride. In Colin’s first T-ball game he hit the second ball thrown to him. Granted, he then executed a perfect slide into the pitcher mound, but he hit the ball! My goal as a coach was to give every parent a chance at that feeling (not the slide part, the hitting part). For the next three years everyone of my kids hit at least one pitch in a game. The laughed, they played, they hit, we prayed. It was success.

Now I am outside my comfort zone. I have great kids. They have a lot of speed. A few can throw and some can even catch. There are a whole new set of rules to learn. Many I learned last Saturday after getting called for a penalty for not understanding them. I have to great coaches helping me through this and two extra helper coaches to keep things focused. We will get through this. We will learn. We will have fun. Sometimes you have to push yourself outside of your comfort zone. It’s the only true way to learn. Praise God.

In Him, All Things!
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Well the blog world calls again. This blog was woefully outdated so I purged it and decided to start over. The unfortunate thing is that most likely this blog will become stale again. I have said a number of time that a blog not worth reading is not worth writing.

That being said, I will try harder to consolidate my thoughts and create something that someone would actually like to read.

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