There’s two NFL games on today. One is must-see TV for this guy.
Ravens VS Steelers. Top two defenses in the league. Division rivals. Nothing friendly about it. This will be a war, and I will be tuned in.
If you need me tonight, don’t call. I’ll be busy teaching my daughter what smash-mouth football looks like.
Intention is a big deal.
“Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” That another translation of the same sentence.
The Jedi version was, “Do, or do not. There is no try.” So said Master Yoda.
So also said William Law. He wrote a book called “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life”–quickly seen to be a book about intention. His version of Yoda’s thought goes like this…
“It was this… intention that made the primitive Christians such eminent instances of piety, that made the goodly fellowship of the Saints and all the glorious army of martyrs and confessors. And it you will here stop and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.”
I won’t bother debating how today’s “average believer” compares with that of another time and place. I simply want to highlight that whatever we become… it will be because we intended to become just that.
That’s the power of intention.
I bought this book while in line at the supermarket a while back…
Flipping through it, I’ve concluded something: I’d do well–exceedingly well–to pray idiot-prayers like these!
Take this one from Christina Rossetti:
“O Lord, the Lord whose ways are right, keep us in your mercy from lip service and empty forms; from having a name that we live, but being dead. Help us to worship you by righteous deeds and lives of holiness; that our prayer also may be set forth in your sight as an incense, and the lifting up of our hands be an evening sacrifice.”
So for all the morons out there, I’ll bring you more occasionally so that, yes, even folks like us can learn to pray.
That’s the word according to Pulaski Academy’s coach Kevin Kelley. Coach Kelley is a numbers geek who decided to use an “idiotic” strategy, which he felt was sound by the stats…
An entire season of not punting.
End result?
A state championship.
Football buffs, check it out HERE.
Everyone else, keep moving and have a Merry Christmas!
It’s probably mean to laugh at this video. If so, consider me the jerk of the day.
Basic plot summary of what you’re about to see?
This kid doesn’t like puppets. If you don’t grasp that as the video unfolds, the blue stool should make it clear enough.
(Yes, the audio is terrible. No, I don’t know why.)