Showing up every day
Other than the Van Buren, there have been many areas in my life in which I've felt challenges to go greatly against the grain. One such area is the one involving my career, where my option to continue playing football into the NFL has turned into a nonoption in my heart and mind.
Throughout all the years of my growing up, I saw my dad work several jobs for several companies. 90% of them were somehow related to semiconductor hardware sales, but I'd like to focus on the 10% of his jobs that didn't fall into that category. Actually, I'd like to focus on an even smaller percentage of that 10%, where my dad worked as a substitute teacher.
My dad had been out of work for a few years and we needed at least some financial help, and he needed to get up in the morning. So he did, and he began to really enjoy it. In fact, I started to see my dad in a way that I'd never really seen him before. I saw him as a man with a purpose, and a desire to fulfill it. He woke up every day with the intent of changing the lives of each student he came across, and it was such a powerful thing to witness.
Well, it's not for me to witness anymore. It's now time for me to experience it. You see, for so long I've pointed myself in the direction of the NFL. But outside of locker room community, the football fellowship, and the example I try to set on Saturdays, I've struggled with the feeling that a career in football would not be fulfilling my purpose. Don't get me wrong, Notre Dame football is where God wants me as of today, October 25, 2006. But on January 9, 2007, I feel He has other plans.
These plans involve following Him into a role of Youth Ministry at Grace Church of Granger. I'm currently working in this role during the few hours I'm out of football each week, but once football is no longer as big a time consumer as it is now, I will be working here close to every day in my week. And honestly, I've never felt more driven in my life. Just like my dad, I wake up every day knowing that I can change the world of people with what I'm doing. It is such an amazing feeling that I struggle to explain it.
I know that this isn't as inspiring a message as it could be, but I hope the story of what God is doing in my life may inspire others.
Blessings,
Bobby
Throughout all the years of my growing up, I saw my dad work several jobs for several companies. 90% of them were somehow related to semiconductor hardware sales, but I'd like to focus on the 10% of his jobs that didn't fall into that category. Actually, I'd like to focus on an even smaller percentage of that 10%, where my dad worked as a substitute teacher.
My dad had been out of work for a few years and we needed at least some financial help, and he needed to get up in the morning. So he did, and he began to really enjoy it. In fact, I started to see my dad in a way that I'd never really seen him before. I saw him as a man with a purpose, and a desire to fulfill it. He woke up every day with the intent of changing the lives of each student he came across, and it was such a powerful thing to witness.
Well, it's not for me to witness anymore. It's now time for me to experience it. You see, for so long I've pointed myself in the direction of the NFL. But outside of locker room community, the football fellowship, and the example I try to set on Saturdays, I've struggled with the feeling that a career in football would not be fulfilling my purpose. Don't get me wrong, Notre Dame football is where God wants me as of today, October 25, 2006. But on January 9, 2007, I feel He has other plans.
These plans involve following Him into a role of Youth Ministry at Grace Church of Granger. I'm currently working in this role during the few hours I'm out of football each week, but once football is no longer as big a time consumer as it is now, I will be working here close to every day in my week. And honestly, I've never felt more driven in my life. Just like my dad, I wake up every day knowing that I can change the world of people with what I'm doing. It is such an amazing feeling that I struggle to explain it.
I know that this isn't as inspiring a message as it could be, but I hope the story of what God is doing in my life may inspire others.
Blessings,
Bobby
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