Be a Winner, In Everything...

   What is my admonition for this morning?

   I have been watching football, college football, league championship games. Those games from yesterday are in the books, they have been decided by the score on the scoreboard.

   Some teams lost, others won.

   What about those who played? 

   Were all on the winning teams, winners? 

   Were all on the losing teams, losers?

   Were there winners on the losing teams and losers on the winning teams?

   Ever since we lived in Blacksburg, VA, back in the early days of this century, I have followed the Virginia Tech Hokies. Well, they had a game last night, and the score ended 42-35, and they were the 35.

   What designates who is a winner and who is a loser? Not a score at the end of 60 minutes of play.

   How many on a team gave it all they had, not only out there on the game field, but on the practice field day after day, all through a season? How many had done all they could in the classroom to make sure they were eligible to participate in the game?

   How many lived life, doing their best in all facets, so as to look back one day and be able to say, "I did all I could, to the best of my ability, to be he best I could be, and I look back with no regrets for any of my efforts"?

   And, when I think about those individuals on those teams yesterday, I have to reflect on my life. A life with so many opportunities to do my best. 

   Sometimes Pride, but sometimes Regret..

   On the field, in the game, in the classroom, in the business world, in the church, in the home…some good and some not so much.

   Perhaps today the field of opportunities is not filled as plentifully, but they exist nevertheless.

   In the community, in the church, in the home..

   The command in Scripture:

"And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

   Do your very best in all you do, with all your life, and live with no regrets.

   I can only wish that I had….all the time back then, but I can try my best in the rest of my time. 

   Opportunities still abound, every day.

   Do It Right