Has your
season been disappointing? Are you frustrated with your results? Do you
have a sense of despair? Do you feel that there is little hope? If so,
then I want to encourage you today to run the race with perseverance
and finish strong. Don’t be discouraged.
I am reminded of the Jacob Riis’ quote concerning rock sculptures…
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Just like
the stone cutter, you don’t always know when good will come but you do
know that if you quit, it will never come.
Last season, our football and
volleyball teams were both struggling. However, they didn’t quit and
kept on persevering.
Both teams were able to put it all together and win
first-round sectional games in the state tournament. If they had let
despair get the better of them, they never would have found success.
