Underrated coaching truth:
The best coaches aren’t obsessed with talent.
They’re obsessed with effort.
With attitude.
With toughness.
Because when it gets hard,
that’s what still shows up.
Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours. We are thankful for the gift of salvation, our amazing children, and God’s mercy on our great country this year.
Take a moment today to be grateful that we did it. By God’s grace alone, we took our country back.
Psalm 118:1
248 years ago, 56 men signed a declaration announcing independence from Great Britain and asserting that individual rights are gifts from God, not a courtesy of the state.
They pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to the cause.
They knew the stakes: their signatures on the declaration would, in the event the revolution failed, become their own death warrant.
They were leading, not following — most colonists either remained loyal to the British crown or were unwilling to take sides.
The battle ahead was difficult, and they never had great odds of actually winning against the most powerful nation on earth.
The ultimate victory in the battle for independence remains a watershed moment in history, powered by the stirring words of the Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Happy Fourth of July and God bless the patriots who risked everything so that we could be free!
It’s moments like these when I think about people who don’t enjoy sports and I wonder what they’re doing right now. Maybe a nice book or museum or hike or something. All lovely, I’m sure.
Gimme this.