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I was coaching at my old high school in 2009 and in the middle of the season I suddenly lost my dad. My dad was a 30 year retired police officer who also served over 30 years volunteering at the local high school as president, vice president and secretary of the boosters club.  My mom and dad along with several great parents had helped raise millions of dollars and build most of the very nice athletic facilities the school has today.  They loved to go to football games home or away.  For over thirty years on Friday night if they were not rotating in the concession stand they sat in the same seats at home games every Friday night.  My dad sat on the top row, on the brick at the corner.  I can see him now sitting there watching me, my brothers, cousins, and nephews playing football on Fridays.   Dad and mom were road warriors and followed the football team wherever they played.  They went to every game home or away for a minimum of 30 seasons. Even when their health started to fail them,

  Offering Forgiveness to Others and Ourselves Let's talk about forgiveness today.  The definition of forgiveness is to exonerate, forgive, excuse and participate in the process of forgetting a wrong someone has done to us.  The pain and hurt that people cause is real and painful. Living with bitterness and the emotional baggage of unforgiving someone can destroy you from the inside out.  It slowly eats away at your soul and hardens your heart.  It makes you question humanity and blinds us to see the good in people. Now let's look at God’s definition and word about forgiveness.  In Ephesians 4:32 the word says “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.” Offering forgiveness is very hard for most people to do because we have been wronged by family, our spouse, friends and strangers.  When someone hurts us, says something out of the way or attacks us, human nature is to get mad and take it offensive.  We take it to heart an

  Dealing with Grief Before it Destroys You Many times in life we face events that devastate us emotionally, physically and spiritually.  I think back about those toughest times of grief in my life and they tend to be centered around the death of a loved one.  I have unfortunately lost my mom (2017) and my dad  (2009).  Other situations such as job loss, divorce, automobile accidents and things that suddenly change the way we live and our current state of reality.   We suddenly are without a special person we have always had.  When I lost my mom and dad, the grief and pain literally almost destroyed me from the inside out.  I held it in and tried to be a tough guy,  I tried to be the person my family could lean on and in the process literally wore myself out emotionally, physically and spiritually.  I leaned on God, but did not use common sense to protect and take care of myself.  I was focused on everybody's needs and I forgot my own needs.  I held onto grief for several years and