Buckeye Nation Loses a Football Coach
Jim Tressel has resigned as the head football coach at Ohio State University. Long admired as an outstanding coach, mentor to youth and outstanding citizen, his "fall from grace" is both surprising and spectacular. Then again, Shakespeare wrote tragedies about people who had character flaws. As Benjamin Franklin quipped: "For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail".
So how do we keep our wits about us? Who tells us the truth about ourselves? In former times Christians turned to one-another as "spiritual friends" to share prayer concerns and seek advice. Whether the issue was disciplining children or making career decisions, spiritual friends provided a listening ear and honest feedback.
To whom do you listen? Who keeps you from tripping over your strengths and ignoring your weaknesses? Humility is the gift to see that there are things, even about ourselves, that we do not see. Is there someone in your life who helps you to hear the "still small voice"?
In faith,
Pastor Tim
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"Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which the virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance."
St. Augustine
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Kathy Broyard, Statewide Coordinator of the Florida Presbyterian Disaster Assistance Network (FLAPDAN) reports the following:
A second disaster threatens to overtake Joplin MO by way of a tidal wave of unsolicited goods (things like clothing, miscellaneous household items, mixed or perishable foodstuffs, diapers...) and volunteers who just show up to help. Critical resources are being redirected from the important work of response and relief to managing what has become a crush of unneeded donated items. Social networking sites are promoting collection drives while radio stations, small and large businesses, business and fraternal organizations and churches around the country fill semis with items that threaten to crowd warehouses and overwhelm distribution channels in the impacted area.
Your help is urgently needed to stem the flow of unneeded goods and volunteers into Joplin.
You are encouraged to reach out to your employees, customers and other constituents on how those wanting to help can do so in a way that doesn't cause further impact, but rather aids in the response and recovery effort.
Cash to a recognized voluntary agency is the single best way to help disaster survivors. Cash doesn't need to be sorted, stored or distributed, and it allows the voluntary agency to the donation towards the needs that most urgently need addressing.
You may contribute to this disaster by marking your checks PDA (Presbyterian Disaster Relief).
Thank you.
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