This Is A Football 6/15/2016

Good Morning,

Just a minute or two longer and my Door County Dublin's Delight Coffee will be poured into one of my favorite mugs and after some prayer I will continue to write and then head to work.

Vince Lombardi was the legendary coach for the Green Bay Packers from 1959-1967 and then coached the Washington Redskins for one year.  His career stats included 96 wins to 34 losses, six Division championships, two conference championships, and two Super Bowl wins.  He won Coach of the Year in 1959, was inducted into the hall of fame in 1971, and is the namesake for the current Super Bowl trophy.
Back in the days Vince Lombardi, the Green Bay Packers had a most interesting beginning to pre-season training. All the players knew that at the first team meeting, the legendary coach would waste no time getting straight to the point. Many of the men, half Lombardi’s age and twice his size, were openly fearful, dreading the encounter. The coach did not disappoint them, and, in fact, delivered his message in one of the great one-liners of all time. Football in hand, Lombardi walked to the front of the room, took several seconds to look over the assemblage in silence, held out the pigskin in front of him, and said, “Gentlemen, this is a football.” In only five words, Lombardi communicated his point: We’re going to start with the basics and make sure we’re executing all the fundamentals.

We all have been watching the world and it's chaos. The American elections for president have become just another silly reality show made for comedy and horror. Shootings and carjacking are common day events. The numbers just change and when it reaches 50 dead we are horrified and start the blame game of gun control, lifestyle choices, terrorism, lack of justice. Lives are lost in the abortion factories each day. Blood is spilled in the streets each night. People are being tortured and killed for being Christians. People cry out for answers. The answer has been taken out of the courts, out of the schools, out of the workplaces, out of homes. God knew what we needed a long time ago. We needed a playbook to live by with easy to understand basic instructions.

Ladies and Gentlemen "This is the Ten Commandments"

(Exodus 20:2-17 NKJV)
1	“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2	“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3	“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4	“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5	“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
6	“You shall not murder.
7	“You shall not commit adultery.
8	“You shall not steal.
9	“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10	“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.”

We need to practice and practice and practice these commandments making them part of all that we do each day. We need to go back to teaching them to our children, and displaying them in public buildings. But most of all we need to live them out.

We know where we went wrong, now let's put this world in reverse and get in the game!

God bless,

Marty