What My Parents Taught Me from Their Hospital Beds - Part VI
I'm nearing the end of this blog series , inspired by the time I spent with my courageous parents, who are currently battling serious medical conditions. I just decided that I would post today and tomorrow. So tomorrow will be my last. The next two days I'll be brief. After all, it's Saturday, and like you, I'm in the throes of family life. As a matter of fact, I'm in the middle of doing my daughter Joelle's hair. So while her moisturizing conditioner is getting absorbed and working its detangling magic, I wanted to share one more lesson my parents have taught me. When I thought about the lesson today, I was reminded of a scene in the film Facing the Giants .* The scene takes place during football practice and the coach is pushing one of his biggest, most promising players to the limit, encouraging him to not give up. I love this scene. The coach makes the player do a "death crawl" across the football field with another player mounted on ...