Welcome! We are just about ready to resume our advertising campaign for You’re Amazing And I’ll Prove It! We are also working on our presentation to Sister Nancy Doran and the Religious Education Directors of Ulster County, NY.

We have a dear friend who is going through a tough time. Please send all the prayers and good thoughts to her that you can.

In our other news our granddaughter brought her dress for prom. We can’t believe all our grandchildren are growing up so quick – the two oldest will be graduating from high school next year.

Now for this week’s story:

All of us have dreams. So many of us work really hard at trying to make them come true. However, it seems that they will never come true. But I am here to say that if you see it, feel it, and believe it, your dreams will come true.

As many of you know, I played basketball for my High School’s team. I loved playing basketball, so after I graduated, I continued playing pick-up ball for many years. In these pick-up games I played with many of the kids that played for our local High School team. Because of this I knew these young players were extremely good. However, I found out that their team not only had a losing record, but they were losing virtually every game.

It made no sense to me that they were losing so many games. As I told you earlier, these were really good players. Once I left high school, I no longer attended high school games. However, I decided I would go to a game to see why my young friends were always losing.

I got to the game early and deliberately sat on the bleachers directly behind the coach. This allowed me to hear what he was saying to the team. The point guard, I’ll call him Jim, was a friend I played pick-up ball with. Because of this I knew he was really good, but I also knew him as a person.

The game started and during the first half the team was doing really well. Jim was running the offense, and the team was easily winning the game. Then the second half started with the coach, a man I didn’t know, approaching the bench and saying to me, “I hate basketball.” Well, obviously this is not a good sign. The coach is the leader of this team and if he tells them that he hates the game, it doesn’t exactly instill confidence. I said nothing back to him. Let’s face it, what could I say, other than you’re an idiot.

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