Page 11 - Publishing Inspiration Christmas Card 2009

Those Who Make Us What We Are

I hadn’t thought too much about it until

that day. I think the reason why was that, in my

junior and senior years of high school, I

received a lot of acclaim in athletics. I won

honors in football, wrestling, and track. I don’t

mention this to brag, but to do just the opposite

- to use it as a means to indicate what might

happen when we are caught up in our own

success, not paying attention to what and who

got us there. But on that day, I thought much

deeper about it. The reason was because of

something I saw.

I was almost always the last person into the

locker room after practice, and that night before

the match against our biggest rival was no

different. I knew what it took to be a champion,

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