{"id":4725,"date":"2012-05-30T17:47:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T17:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2012-11-26T21:17:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T21:17:39","slug":"thought-05-29-12-bb-go-to-the-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/uncategorized\/thought-05-29-12-bb-go-to-the-coach","title":{"rendered":"Thought 05.29.12 BB Go to The Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Go to The Coach\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have always loved sports. Still do. In the sports world we learn about life! The ups, the downs, the planning, the execution, the preparation, the event, the victory\u2014or the defeat. We try to do our best, but many times that isn\u2019t enough. What do we do then? Give up?\u2014or go to the coach? Every sport, especially team sports like football, has a coach. He is the person who can give you outside advice because he knows you and where you have come from and what you are and what you can be. The coach is invaluable. So, who is your \u201clife\u201d coach?<\/p>\n

I grew up listening to outstanding LDS speaker Emmett Smith, a coach, tell about life lessons learned through sports. Here is one of his own stories\u2014before he became a coach.<\/p>\n

Brother Smith said, \u201cI played football in high school. We were playing Amphitheater High School. The score was 7 to 6. We had the 6. Amphitheater had the 7. There were twenty-seven seconds left in the football game. We had the ball and 6 inches to go for a touchdown. Six inches! And we had four plays to score. Four plays! <\/em><\/p>\n

You can FALL six inches in four plays, can\u2019t you?\u2014and score a touchdown! Not always. We tried our \u201cgoal line\u201d plays. If you play football you know you have plays you try when you are down on the goal line. Well, we were on the goal line. We tried \u201c12.\u201d That\u2019s where the \u201c1\u201d back went through the \u201c2\u201d position (football talk). Bam! We\u2019re still six inches from the goal line. It\u2019s now second down. So we tried \u201c23.\u201d That\u2019s where the \u201c2\u201d back goes to the \u201c3\u201d position. Bam! We\u2019re still six inches away. <\/em><\/p>\n

Well, we have to do something. We\u2019re now at third down. We\u2019re going to throw what is called a \u201cbasketball pass\u201d to me. That\u2019s where I go over the goal line and Jim Kabashi, our quarterback, tosses it over the heads of everyone to me. I go up in the air, I\u2019m waiting for the ball, easy catch\u2014and the ball goes zip!\u2014right through my hands and to the ground. The team is cracking up laughing, the other team is laughing because I should have caught the ball; it was an easy uncontested catch. There was nothing in the world keeping me from catching it. But the ball is lying on the ground now. And it\u2019s fourth down. We\u2019re still six inches short of our goal. <\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s fourth down and we have about nine seconds to go. We have one down left to score. I said, \u2018Time out.\u2019 And I went over to the coach. I said \u2018Coach. We have tried every goal line play I know, and we can\u2019t make a touchdown.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

He said, \u2018That\u2019s right. You have played every goal line play you know<\/span>\u2014but not every goal line play I know<\/span>.\u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

He said look at this. And he draws it out on a board. I take it back in. <\/em><\/p>\n

We score a touchdown! <\/em><\/p>\n

We win the game!<\/em><\/p>\n

I suggest when times are hard and you can\u2019t score the goal, when you\u2019ve done everything you know and still no success, and you\u2019ve played every goal line play you have\u2014call a time out<\/strong>! Go to the coach! He knows all the plays. That\u2019s our Father in Heaven. <\/em><\/p>\n

He knows ALL the plays!\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Alma 40:10
\nDoctrine and Covenants 88:41
\n1 Chronicles 28:9
\nActs 15:18
\nDoctrine and Covenants 38:2<\/p>\n

~Bruce Barton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Go to The Coach I have always loved sports. Still do. In the sports world we learn about life! The ups, the downs, the planning, the execution, the preparation, the event, the victory\u2014or the defeat. We try to do our best, but many times that isn\u2019t enough. What do we do then? Give up?\u2014or go…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4725"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4805,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4725\/revisions\/4805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brucebarton.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}