This morning, bright and early, we headed to Memorial Football Field to start football camp. It really was a beautiful day for the camp. The temperature was only around 70 degrees and the sun was out.
The high school coaches started with the some basic football warm-up drills. It was interesting to watch these 3rd - 6th grade boys do their drills. You could tell the boys who were use to the routine of football and those who were having their troubles learning how to karaoke and do some of the drills. Some of the feet were not really going the right way.
Matthew seems to excel in these sports type events. He does not love the "getting there" or having to get up early to go to practice but really does well once practice has started.
As I watched today, I thought about life and how we all start out laying around, rolling over, crawling, walking and then running.
I thought about the discipline it takes, even at Matthew's age, to play football. These boys (at least in football crazed Chardon) work hard. They practice 5 days a week before the season and do many of the same drills over and over and over and over again. Then if it's still not right, they do it again. Some kids bail out before the reward of a game begins.
Did you know that real friendships and relationships take discipline?
We are a society of fast everything these days. Many kids are being raised in a thought pattern of instant gratification. If they don't get what they want out of a given relationship, they move on easily.
Sometimes friendship takes a little extra work to make them work. Sometimes it requires us to go the extra mile even when we think we have been wronged.
How is your discipline factor today? Do you take the extra time to make the phone call, send the card, share a hug, or say a prayer for those in your life?
I always want to be known as a person who loves people and be called their FRIEND!
The high school coaches started with the some basic football warm-up drills. It was interesting to watch these 3rd - 6th grade boys do their drills. You could tell the boys who were use to the routine of football and those who were having their troubles learning how to karaoke and do some of the drills. Some of the feet were not really going the right way.
Matthew seems to excel in these sports type events. He does not love the "getting there" or having to get up early to go to practice but really does well once practice has started.
As I watched today, I thought about life and how we all start out laying around, rolling over, crawling, walking and then running.
I thought about the discipline it takes, even at Matthew's age, to play football. These boys (at least in football crazed Chardon) work hard. They practice 5 days a week before the season and do many of the same drills over and over and over and over again. Then if it's still not right, they do it again. Some kids bail out before the reward of a game begins.
Did you know that real friendships and relationships take discipline?
We are a society of fast everything these days. Many kids are being raised in a thought pattern of instant gratification. If they don't get what they want out of a given relationship, they move on easily.
Sometimes friendship takes a little extra work to make them work. Sometimes it requires us to go the extra mile even when we think we have been wronged.
How is your discipline factor today? Do you take the extra time to make the phone call, send the card, share a hug, or say a prayer for those in your life?
I always want to be known as a person who loves people and be called their FRIEND!
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