Faith & Life Inspirational Message

Yesterday was Super Sunday.  In fact, it was Super Sunday XLIX.  I went to our Recreation Center where I saw a bunch of college students…mostly junior and senior athletes on my campus.  As I looked out over their young faces, I realized they never knew life without professional football’s Super Sunday.  In their lives there has always been a Super Bowl!  I think they were a little stunned when I told them I remembered a time in American history when there was no Super Bowl!  Of course, that makes me at least 48 years old!  In fact, it is a little difficult for me to remember those days.  But I do recall (I think) the third Super Bowl (III).  That was the year Joe Namath, quarterback for the New York Jets, prophetically called the victory over the Baltimore Colts, the heavy favorite.  More than anything, that probably made the Super Bowl what it was to become. Yesterday each thirty-second commercial cost $4,000,000!  That bl...

I like working on a college campus.   Of course, it has some drawbacks, but for me personally the advantages far outweigh those drawbacks.   Part of what I like so much is the range of things that go on.   There is a huge range of things that students study.   Some things I know quite a bit about and other things, I barely know what the subject means.   And when you have this many people united in one enterprise called a college, there is an amazing diversity of abilities and talents.   Music, art, clubs, work and so much more make the array of possible involvement feel almost limitless.             One thing I did not mention in the list was sports.   I like sports.   I played sports and I still like to watch sports.   I would be the first to admit that sports in America are probably out of whack.   There may well be too much time and money spent on a variety of games.   Thi...