We will start each week with a few "coffee-cup" discussion starter questions to begin sharing on the topic.
Please post in the comments here your answers to any or all of these questions:
Share a meaningful “pep-talk” that you have been given. When did you get the pep-talk? What made it a
good one? Have you ever tried to give a pep-talk? When?Sometimes God calls us to do very difficult jobs. Can you think of a job that you would rather not do? What is it about that job that you would find most difficult?
When there is a disagreement in your family, what is the way that you seek to deal with it? What happens when it is a dispute between your parents? What about when it is between children in the family, how do your parents handle that?
My soccer coach in college had a very hard job. He had to help us give our all throughout an entire season when we were expecting to lose every single game.
ReplyDeleteThe pep-talk I remember was more of a season-long theme. He told us that our goal was just to empty the tank each day at practice, and for sure in each game. He said the only way that we would fail is if we finished a game, and still had something left that we could have poured out on the field.
So "empty the tank" was the phrase we used over and over. It might seem a bit cliche, but we literally poured out every ounce of energy for him, and for each other. This was before the movie "Facing the Giants" which has a very similar theme.....
Playing soccer at FVL can have a lot of pressure. The school expects us to go to state every year and that can be rather overwhelming, especially when the team doesn't believe it can happen.
ReplyDeleteA couple weeks ago, we had a tournament out in Oshkosh. It was the first game and we were down at half time. Our team captain huddled us around and have us a talk about how we were so much better than they were and how we should not be losing. "We are faster, stronger, and have way better ball skills than they do," he said, "you just gotta believe we can do it." As optimistic as I am, I wasn't even quite sure if we could pull through on this one, but I was wrong. We ended up coming back and not only that, we buried the other team and way out scored them. All we needed to do was believe that we could do that. Later that day we ended up taking first place in the entire tournament. But I guarantee that would not have been the outcome if our team captain hadn't given the speech he gave that day.
Thanks for sharing Jeremiah.
ReplyDeleteI was going to write about how arguments were handled in my family. I'm not sure it is the right way to do it, but in our family, disagreements usually happened in the living room. Sitting down to talk (or yell) through a problem was pretty common. I know that I appreciated that things weren't kept a secret. I think it helped me learn how to talk through things as an adult.
Also, i learned that marriages aren't perfect, and to appreciate the importance of talking through things.