Inspire-ME Monday #8: Substituting Faith for Fear
Just one today, but I think it is a powerful one. And maybe one that explains our whole election...
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You Gotta Have Faith
"[You] gotta have faith" -- George Michael When I think about what went wrong in the big game on Sunday against the Patriots, I keep coming back to the word FAITH. All season long, even when it didn't make any sense, that's what this Seahawks team had. They had FAITH. In themselves and in each other. Faith, faith, faith. And it seems to me that in the last seconds of the Super Bowl they lost it. They got scared and they forgot who they are. They forgot that if you have twenty seconds on the clock and three tries and you give the ball to Marshawn Lynch he WILL make it across that goal line even if - maybe especially if - everyone on the other team knows he's going to have the ball. This lack of faith - in themselves and in each other - cost them this game. And it is so sad. It is heart-breaking, really, on so many levels. After the miraculous win against the Packers and after the miraculous catch just minutes prior and after all the talk about c...
Wisdom from The West Wing
"Act as if ye have faith and faith will be given to you." -- Leo McGarry , The West Wing , Season 2, Episode 1