“If someone is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won’t need a third.”
–Pete Rose, Major League Baseball’s all-time-hits record holder

For two baseball families and many baseball fans, there was big news last month. Major League Baseball’s commissioner’s office removed Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson from the lifetime ineligibility list. Both had been banned due to allegations of gambling on baseball, a dagger to the heart of any player or manager who’s caught.

Rob Manfred, MLB’s Commissioner, […]

“I am loathe to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
–from President Abraham Lincoln’s March 4, […]

“There is no shortcut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation–veneer isn’t worth anything.”
–George Washington Carver

There’s an old adage that goes like this, “Half the battle is just showing up.” Respectfully, I beg to differ.

Recently, Luke Kuechly was the guest speaker at our church’s men’s event. For those of you who don’t follow the Carolina Panthers or aren’t football junkies, Kuechly was a dominant linebacker in the league and for the Panthers for several years. The experts fully expect him […]