1.23- "Lean into the football workouts", our coach would say. "Get sore. Stay sore.

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"Lean into the football workouts", our coach would say. "Get sore. Stay sore. Workout sore. It will be normal and natural and your will feel more strength and you will not fear hitting or being hit. You will be a hitter, a pain giver rather than a pain receiver."

Dad said that walking out a spained ankle was good. This was good for me. It would make me tough.

My good friends who were weight workout guys invited me to join them, when i was 50, with the same promise. It all proved true.

The comfortable life is not the life of the Olymic athlete or any great athlete.

It is not the life of excellent doctors, nurses, teachers, counselors. Good workers in these fields and other work areas are stressed in a good way. They bear burdens with those they help.

One day at a time. One step at a time. Farmers, soldiers, athletes know how to focus and suffer and develop their heart, soul and mind. To skip the hard part and become an honored example is not possible.

1 Corinthians 9

19 For though I am free from all people, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may gain more. 20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the Law, I became as one under the Law, though not being under the Law myself, so that I might gain those who are under the Law; 21 to those who are without the Law, I became as one without the Law, though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ, so that I might gain those who are without the Law. 22 To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak; I have become all things to all people, so that I may by all means save some. 23 I do all things for the sake of the gospel, so that I may become a fellow partaker of it.

24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. 25 Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. So they do it to obtain a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 26 Therefore I run in such a way as not to run aimlessly; I box in such a way, as [i]to avoid hitting air; 27 but I strictly discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

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