Alive

 Is there anything better in life when you truly feel alive.  You leave behind the mundane and experience life like it should be fresh and exciting.  A think the one word that captures this exuberant feeling is Love. When you have a Love in your life you have this electricity coursing through your body and even the basic simplest tasks are energized with joy and passion.  

So we must seek it out this Love of our lives for it is there for all of us and it must be explored and found for without it life is bland. Keep seeking friends because we all deserve a love like no other and compromise is out of the question.  Seek and we shall find. Ask and it shall be given.  

With a Love like that we can light up the whole world.  Starting with ours. 

With Love,

Coach K

The Pieta - Michelangelo

 The Pieta is a sculpture by Michelangelo that is considered one of the greatest works of art ever created. When Michelangelo was 23 years old, he was commissioned by a cardinal to produce “the most beautiful work of marble in Rome, one that no living artist could better.” It was to capture the moment the Virgin Mary held Christ in her arms after he was taken down from the cross. 

Accepting the challenge, the relatively unknown young man got to work on a block of Carrara marble. Less than 2 years later, the work was installed at the cardinal's grave, on the very same day he died. When revealed, it was met with sheer disbelief. Most doubted it was the young man’s work, so he carved into the sash across Mary's chest: “Michelangelo Buonarroti of Florence made this.” 

La Pietà embodies the power of beauty as a transcendent force. It takes the worst possible human tragedy — the loss of a grieving parent — and transforms it into something that helps you to instead see the ecstatic joy of human life. Michelangelo saw in the dead body of Christ such compassionate suffering that it drove him to create the most beautiful thing ever hewn from a block of marble. Vasari called it a “miracle that a formless block of stone could ever have been reduced to a perfection that nature is scarcely able to create in the flesh.” La Pietà now lives at St. Peter’s Basilica, where it has been for over 500 years.  

 

Flying - JM Barrie Peter Pan

 J.M. Barrie was a Scottish novelist and playwright and the author of Peter Pan.  All of accomplishments and achievements start with Belief.  Our thoughts and ideas shape our destiny, and the Good News is we control and determine our thoughts and beliefs.  

Like Peter Pan flitting the skies we can also dare to live the life we dreamed of and soar the heavens for we know that with God all things all possible.God Bless. 

With Love,

Coach K

 

George Washington and the Continental Army - Fort Washington, Pennsylvania

 History 

George Washington as both Commander of the Continental forces and as America's First President in the original colonial Capitol Philadelphia spent years in the what is now Montgomery County, PA. The battle of Germantown, The battle of Whitemarsh, and of course wintering the Army for six months in frigid Valley Forge. This entire area is 20 miles and Germantown and Whitemarsh are very close to Philadelphia only a few miles from city center.  And while the Colonials fought many valiant battles they most likely lost more men at Valley Forge with the brutal frigid weather,  lack of supplies, and harsh living conditions than all the battles combined. Valley Forge is now a National Park and hallowed ground.

Following its defeat at the Battle of Germantown, the Continental Army camped at several different sites before choosing a more permanent, strategic location in Whitemarsh Township. 

More than 12,000 soldiers arrived to set up camp on November 11, 1777. The high ground where George Washington made his camp was easily defendable against British attacks. A handful of skirmished occurred in early December, but the American's superior position dissuaded the British from a large-scale attack. 

After a month in Whitemarsh, Washington abandoned the camp and moved toward Valley Forge, a similarly defendable position where the troops could build more suitable quarters and better defend the precious iron forges along the Schuylkill River. 

Very little remains from the encampment in what is now Fort Washington State Park. Fort Hill was at the western end of the positions and the site of the namesake fort, though all traces are lost. Militia Hill was the position of the Pennsylvania militia during the encampment. The Clifton House, a former tavern located within the park boundary, now houses a museum and library. 

Hope Lodge, a historic home adjacent to the park, is open for tours on select days throughout the year. 

May Freedom and Liberty continue to ring loudly throughout the world.  God Bless America!

With Love,

Coach K

St. Matthew Ask

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 St. Matthew the former tax collector that become a beloved Apostle of Jesus and who documented many of Jesus' sermons while traveling with The Good Lord. Matthew in this piece of scripture reminds us that with God all things are possible but we do need to ask and continue knocking on the door until it opens. We have our plans and God has even better plans for us.  We must be patient at times and know that God knows best, and when you see your dreams unfold before you stay humble, give thanks, and share your success gladly with others. The Lord loves a cheerful heart and giver.

 Matthew 7:7-11
7 “Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

 

With Love,

Coach K

 

 

Heaven on Earth

 

 

 Another wonderful quote by Teacher, Mentor, and friend to humanity Wayne Dyer.  Dr. Dyer

reminds us that we are responsible for creating our own world. We create our Heaven on Earth 

with our commitment to God and his teachings. Every day we choose out thoughts and actions

which gives us the power to have direct control over our lives and outcomes. Write your dreams 

down, believe in yourself and know that God is always by your side even during setbacks, Jesus

reminds that with the Faith of a tiny mustard seed we can move mountains. Keep God close, pray

and give Thanks and Praise for all the things you desire begin to show up in your life. And as Dr.

Dyer reminds us, Infinite Patience brings immediate results.  Trust in God and believe in yourself 

and you will live a life beyond your dreams.

 

 With Love,

 Coach K

Own The Day

In the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.    -   Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

With Love,

Coach K