Here is some food for your Daily Bread!
2/17– Start Your Day Off Right Series
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Story:
“When Dennis Parker and D. W. Rutledge arrived as assistant coaches at Converse Judson High School in San Antonio, Texas, they knew there was something missing in the players they coached—some intangible quality that it took to make a champion. It was clear the team had the talent to be better than it was. Parker understood that problems on the football field were not physical but mental. That’s when these men launched a concept that was initially scoffed at by most of their peers.
Rutledge and Parker ascribed to the Stanford theory that 8 percent of an individual’s success is based on ability, while 92 percent is based on attitude. So they decided to test this “hypothesis and proposed to move kids out of the weight room and into the classroom to teach character development. It wasn’t long before their critics stopped laughing, sat up, and took notice.
The results were astounding. After only one year in the program, Converse Judson went from having a very mediocre season to a winning record of 14 and 1 in 1982. This team of converted athletes then proceeded to seize the Texas AAAAA State Championship the following year.
Stories like this were duplicated time and again over the next fourteen years, as the careers of Parker and Rutledge moved them to coach at high schools and colleges throughout Texas. Their newfound “philosophy turned athletic programs around and led numerous teams to state championships. Suddenly, teams that hadn’t seen victory since 1940 were setting records.
Football scores weren’t the only things to improve. Test scores went up as kids developed confidence and self-esteem. What started as a program whose sole goal was to win football games evolved into a life-changing curriculum. Rutledge and Parker had discovered a gold mine and wanted to share this valuable treasure with as many coaches and kids as possible. Zig Ziglar made that possible by turning Coaching to Change Lives into a published curriculum available to any coach who wanted a practical tool to teach players principles of character, attitude, “integrity, goal setting, self-image, and responsibility. Now these life-changing principles are being taught in classrooms across Texas.
One need only look at the wave of school shootings and youth violence in our country to understand the importance of building character and leadership in our society. Zig has made a positive difference in many lives, but his involvement with the Living to Change Lives Foundation will have an even greater impact. Through his work with young people, he is creating a lasting legacy that will benefit generations to come.
It doesn’t matter where you’re born, how much money you have, or what your educational level is. What matters is that you recognize you “can make a difference and that God has a purpose for you.”
Scripture:
Luke 17:6
And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
Humor:
2/17–
A group of seminary students gathered in the chapel one day as the dean challenged them to NOT pray for a large church because of the stress, problems and worries that go with it. The next year one of the students who graduated returned to give his testimony. He said, “I did ask God for a big church; however, I also asked God for a pretty wife. My prayer was ALMOST answered. Instead of getting a big church and a pretty wife, I got a pretty church and a big wife!”
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