Coaching

Recently I started coaching my son Andrew’s 4^th grade travel basketball team.  Ok, not real recently, as we’ve now played 2 three games and have been practicing since the week before Thanksgiving.  I really wanted to coach this team because I really love the game of basketball and enjoy spending time with my son.  Plus, I have so much free time anyway….lol.

To be honest, when we first started practices these kids were really rough.  They have varying amounts of skill and were all coming from different backgrounds in the game of basketball.  The plan quickly became to start from square one and build them together as a team, each learning the same fundamentals at the same time.  After we worked on putting in that foundation we then continued to build on it.  You see, none of the kids has ever played “real basketball”, as I was calling it.  This level of basketball is set up like a high school varsity team’s play instead of the earlier levels that give just the basics.

So, now that we’ve played the three game the kids have had a good taste of what basketball is really all about.  They continue to learn and want to keep getting better.  You can see it in their eyes...the will to improve every practice and every game.  It’s really a cool thing to see and very welcome to anyone who has ever coached.

I mention this today because I have to imagine that this is the same kind of look that God is looking for in our eyes.  That will to be better than who we are and to continually make progress.  Maybe we won’t win every day, but the desire to make ourselves more than we already are has to light up His heart.

So, if you think you are ready for some of God’s coaching, just open His word and find the best gameplan for your life.