WARNING! DANGER AHEAD IN LIFE

I don't care who you are or who your folkes are you are gong to reach the point where it just doesn't mater any more. Heed my caution because it does happened. No matter what the situation that brings you to that point, you will just give out. Maybe you're tired of someone taking credit for your good job or maybe your good jobs go unnoticed or maybe you keep trying and failing or maybe you are not appreciated for your efforts beyond the call of duty or it just doesn't seem that you are making a difference. It might be your boss or their boss or those you work with or your coach or your best friend or your wife or husband or your mother or your father or your brother or your sister or your pastor or your children or your cause or your mission in life but something will bring you to the point that you give up.

When I played football at MSU we would start the year with 2 or 3 weeks of 2 or 3 a-day practices. Each practice was usually 2 1/2 or 3 hours long. It's not like it is now where you got all the water you wanted or could suck oxygen on the side lines. Just as hot but without any special treatment. After the first day a few folk had fallen out from the heat and usually 2 or 3 guys were put in the campus hospital for dehydration. Heck, Gator aid hadn't been out for long. You had blisters on both feet and you had to put corn starch on them because each blister was busted open. You could hear guys yelling out at night because of the leg cramps and if you were lucky you didn't have to go to treatment at 6:00 AM. We were told that we would want to die but that our bodies would stop before we died and then the coaches would take care of us because it was to late to replace us with some freshmen. Every factor to beat you was there, physical exhaustion, mental fatigue, spiritual challenges. They told us it was the way character was built and in the forth quarter when others were giving up we would have the courage to go on. Of course this was with the assumption that that we all would face the same challenges. How about when you are in the forth quarter, you are behind 4 touch downs, you've been on the field 80% of the game, there is only 1 minute left in the game, 90% of the fans in the stands are gone and the rest haven't left because they are the parents and band, you have had the flu but it has been kept quiet so the other team wouldn't fine out and you haven't won but 2 games the entire season.

What do you do? What.... do.... you.... do....? Knowing what you do will have an ever lasting affect on your life what do you do?

Now, there is a point in your life, it's coming, when you give up and say "it just doesn't matter."

You'll tell yourself that "it doesn't matter" but believe me it does. That is the character that isn't made on the field, it's built from experience with things that are greater than we are. don't call it "luck" because there is nothing to doubt about the source.

Some rambling today. Right? Well for all the folk that read this, a little rambling is OK.