My High School Football Team at Pinellas Park High School

There is something about being on a team.  

I have good memories of my high school football team at Pinellas Park High.  Win or loose we were in it together.  Our coach asked us to choose the schedule we would take for my senior year.  We were a new school and people did not expect too much from us.  We could play smaller schools and that would be acceptable.  Or, we could play the bigger schools.  That would be the schools we came from.  Our new school had taken students from 3-4 other high schools.  We might loose all the games.  But, we all wanted to take on the challenge of playing our old schools.  

Today, Linda and I are on the edge of a new transition.  No doubt that God is moving us from Maryland, back to Florida.  It is like we have no choice.  God is that clear.  

For 30 years I have been privileged with a paid position as I worked on a church staff.  More and more I look to build a team.  We need to see the same purpose.  It will take work.  There will be training.  My future job is not clear.  But I know there will be a team.  

This will be part of the team.  All Scripture is inspired by God and it is useful for training workers.  Then I read another place that said church leaders responsibility is to train workers.  The church becomes mature in Christ when leaders train those who are teachable to do work.  My goal would be to build a team that would carry this out.  Team up with God to make this happen.  To be a biblical church.  (II Tim 3:17, Eph. 4:12)

As I remember it, the first game we won had the score of 4 to 0.  We scored 2 safety's.  No one really expected that.  But we planned and worked hard expecting to win.  I learned a lot from that high school team.  I hope to keep on learning as we build a team to be the church.  

Change the way I pray

Hey God in heaven.  I am pretty good.  Since I am good I think I should get my way.  Since I am good you will probably give me what I want.  I do sin, but not as bad as other people I know.  So just keep the good times coming.  

Ok, not the best way to pray.

I want to change the way I pray.  It seems I often say the same words without enough thought.  I have been thinking about how Jesus taught people to pray in Matthew 6:9-13. 

I want my prayers to realize the greatness of my Lord and Savior.  I want everything to line up with what he wants to do in my life and in the lives of those around me.  

My needs can be part of my prayers.  My needs and my wants are not the same.  I hope my wants, will keep changing to be more like what my Father's wants from heaven.  

When I seek the holiness of God I notice how I fall short.  My sin must be confessed.  Change my selfish ways to line up with my creator so to fit what I was made for.  

My Father in heaven, you are  .  .  .  .