“My identity is in Jesus, that comes before anything else” Coach Joe Mazulla of the Boston Celtics
God’s glory
Positive
“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.” Fyodor Dostoevsky
Staying positive
Faith
“Don’t try to figure out the whole road. Don’t try to control everything around you. Just take the next right step in faith” Coach Lou Holtz
One mile at a time
Mission from God
“Life shines brightly not because we are rich, beautiful or powerful. Instead, it shines when we discover within ourselves the truth that we are called by God, have a vocation, have a mission, that our lives serve something greater than ourselves.” Pope Leo XIV
Mission from God!
In honor of my mom
In honor of my mom in this Mother’s Day, I want to share with you some of her last words to me as she was dying:
“Don’t be afraid of death. Death is peace. God is giving me great peace. Yesterday, I felt like Jesus on the cross. He did that for us and he did not even know us. He could have taken himself down, but he stayed on that cross for us. I wanted to be taken down from that cross. I wanted the pain to go away, but I offered up all of that pain. They asked me how bad was the pain on a scale of 1-10…I told them it was a 12. (She laughed). As I was dying, I thought most of my children. The ones I love the most, and I was afraid of losing that love. I love you, Michael, and I am so blessed to have you as my son. Every day, I make the sign of the cross and thank God for everything he has given me and for everything he has taken away. Thy will be done, Jesus. I’m going to make it to my 100th birthday and you need to have a big party.”
Faith
“To keep ourselves spiritually alive we must continually renew our faith. We are like pilots of fog-bound steamers, peering into the gloom in front of us, listening for the sounds of other ships, and we can only reach our harbor if we keep alert. The spiritual life is, then, first of all a matter of keeping awake. . . . always able to respond to the slightest warnings that speak, as though by a hidden by instinct, in the depth of the soul that is spiritually alive.” Thomas Merton