Every Day Miracles

 Miracles Abound

We are surrounded by miracles everyday we have just lost sight of these daily occurrences.  Think about what happens to us and we live our lives.  We wake up from a restorative dream like sleep and begin the day with a breath.  A simply breath fills our lungs with the precise mix of Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Argon including other trace gases.  Think of how that breath provides the nutrients that fuel our blood, organs, brain, and body.  Remarkable. 

Now let's move to Sunshine that is essential for life and provide all the food and nutrients we need to survive. The Earth provides the soil to grow the plants and crops we need to sustain life. Think of our incredible bodies despite some flaws our complex eyes enable us to see and witness the magnificent universe.  Our heart is an incredible muscle that pumps our blood throughout the body to provide essential nutrients to our organs, muscles, tissues, and cells. 

Our brains are an amazing complex organ that surpasses any computer, regulating bodily functions, essential chemicals, and of course our ability to think, learn, and reason. We take for granted the amazing organism known as the human body. 

We just touched on the miracles that occur daily in nature.  One such miracle that we experienced recently was the birth of a child.  A man and woman come together and posses everything needed to procreate and propagate human life. When we experience a human embryo growing inside the mother's womb that is born into the world, we can only humbled and awed by God's blessings that surround us. 

The world will always have challenges, but don't let those circumstances overwhelm you or forget your divine nature and and the miracle that is You.

With Love,

Coach K

Tony

 Tony started working in a manufacturing plant logging 12 hour rotating shifts from 6a-6pm or 6pm-6am.  He is a hard worker and wanted extra hours to provide for his growing family.  I would tell the guys that no matter who you work for you're always working and representing You Inc, your personal brand. 

And as CEO of your brand you want to have a good reputation.  Hard worker, team player, problem solver, leader, good attitude.  We would talk about how the people you interact with on a daily basis may have a life changing opportunity because everyone is on the lookout for talent and good people. 

So after a few years of logging 12 hour shift and 70 hour work weeks in the cold plant, Tony was offered a management opportunity with one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S.  After being there for less than six months, he just reached out and said that he was promoted to a supervisor position. 

Tony went from a job to a life changing career that offers economic security for him and his family in a few short years. The power of your mindset and attitude is so important and it can propel you to places you never dreamed of, it can also have a negative or deleterious impact of your success and achievement. We all have challenges and difficult circumstances to deal with at times but they are just stepping stones to better opportunities.  And no matter how talented you may be remember that no one wants to work or be associated with a jerk. 

If the situation you're in today is not ideal, we can always make a change and look for other opportunities. But you can also simply adjust your attitude and watch your whole world change immediately.  As Dr. Wayne Dyer says, "when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

With God all things are possible. 

With Love,

Coach K

Jesus Christ Is Risen Today

 Alleluia

I found myself singing this old church hymn from my grade school days at St. Matthew's in Conshohocken, PA.  One of the most stunning churches in Pennsylvania when the steel industry boomed in the old mill town. 

The first stanza of the song goes like this:

Jesus Chris is risen today 

Aaaaaa lleeee luuuu ia (ya)

Our triumphant holy day

Aaaaaa lleeee luuuu ia

Who did once upon the cross

Aaaaaa lleeee luuuu ia

Suffer to redeem our loss

Aaaaaa lleeee luuuu ia

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Every day we wake up to start the day we rise with the blessing of the living God Lord Jesus Christ. 

God Bless!

With Love,

Coach K

Louis Pasteur - Wine

 Louis Pasteur

As someone who enjoys good wine, I came across a wonderful quote from the mid 1800's French chemist and inventor Louis Pasteur. Pasteur was a pioneer in vaccine research developing a rabies vaccine and other life saving animal and human vaccines. 

He also invented the process of pasteurization whereby the product is heated to eliminate bad microorganisms.  The process was originally developed while studying fermentation for the French wine industry but later was applied to milk and other products.  

"A bottle of wine contains more philosophy that all the books in the world"

 Louis Pasteur

Cheers!

With Love,

Coach K

Christmas

 Happy Birthday Jesus!

Christmas is a day to celebrate the birth of Christ.  The word Christmas simply means Christ Mass or the Mass of Christ.  Jesus was born on December 25th in a manger with his mother Mary and father Joseph. From humbling beginnings, the Savior was born bringing joy and light to the world. 

Jesus' message throughout time has resonated throughout the universe

"Love one another as I have loved you"

This Christmas season as we celebrate with family and friends we can carry this message of love and hope to all those we encounter bringing fellowship and good will throughout the world. 

Merry Christmas!

God Bless.

With Love,

Coach K

 

A poem by Clement Clarke Moore written in 1823, more or better yet Moore commonly known as the "Twas the night before Christmas". 

Merry Christmas!

A Visit from St. Nicholas

BY CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE

• A Visit from St. Nicholas
• Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children were nestled all snug in their beds;

While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;

And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,

Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap,

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.

Away to the window I flew like a flash,

Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,

Gave a lustre of midday to objects below,

When what to my wondering eyes did appear,

But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny rein-deer,

With a little old driver so lively and quick,

I knew in a moment he must be St. Nick.

More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,

And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:

"Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now Prancer and Vixen!

On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!

To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!

Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!"

As leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,

When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;

So up to the housetop the coursers they flew

With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too—

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof

The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

As I drew in my head, and was turning around,

Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,

And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;

A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,

And he looked like a pedler just opening his pack.

His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry!

His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,

And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow;

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,

And the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath;

He had a broad face and a little round belly

That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,

And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head

Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,

And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,

And laying his finger aside of his nose,

And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,

And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.

But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight—

“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”