- “Imagine working four years for one moment. This is their Super Bowl. Bigger, even. Such a good lesson for all of us. They work hard for hours a day, day after day, with no one watching. There’s no result right away. You can’t see the benefit of what you’re doing right away. It’s the same for us here in camp. In a football practice, you practice your craft every day. It’s tedious, tiring, regimented. But if you don’t do the tedious stuff, you’ll never win. That’s one of the things the Olympics can teach us all.”
– Lovie Smith, Chicago Bears head coach, to SI writer Peter King http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/peter_king/08/12/mmqb/index.html#ixzz23WTl1mjg
- “To support Japan, what I would say is this: Simply do what you do every day, but do it better. Go to school or to work but with passion and energy. Engage your neighbors or community but with more sympathy and compassion than you ever have. Let these historic moments move you, inspire you and invigorate you for as long as the feeling lasts because, believe me, that initial adrenaline and humanitarian solidarity will wear off. Ride it as long as you can. Let it make you be a better person, and let it wake you up from the complacency in your life.” (A resident of Tokyo, Japan, after the horrific earthquake/tsunami of March 11, 2011; quoted in 2:46 Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake; editor Patrick Sherriff, 2011)
- “I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength.” (Apostle Paul in Philippians 4:13)
Grateful with you for the Word,
Pastor Stephen Luchterhand