"I have a strong conviction as a Christian, and I’ve been praying a lot for our team and our players as has my wife and my family and her Bible study group and everybody in our church," Howland said. "It’s all about having faith."
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he should have more faith
in his freshmen and the zone. and not so much in his seniors…
Across The Face
Well Ben, as my mom used to say,
“Trust in God, but keep your hands on the steering wheel.”
The best thing you can do for your children is to love their mother. John Wooden
Which is why I always hated the Carrie Underwood song about the Lord taking the wheel.
I think Ms. Underwood is a good and talented singer as well as a lovely young lady. I go to church, and I have no problem with anyone exercising their religious beleifs so long as they don’t interfere with the civil rights and unharmful practices of others.
That being said, when she sings in her song about her car spinning out of control on a dark, rainy night, and she throws up her hands and screams for a divine heavenly power to take the wheel… I’m just thinking, “Are you out of your freaking mind?!?” God gave us hands to hold ON TO steering wheels, girl!
OK, enough from me.
"In this program your passion bucket must be full to play SC." -- CRN, to Dan Patrick, 1/2008
Even as a metaphor she makes a poor suggestion.
If the car is your life, and you are spinning out of control, sure it would be great for divine intervention to take over and straighten you out.
But, one thing I’ve learned in my short time on earth is we are all the products of our choices, for better or worse. Like you, I’m all for spiritual guidance, but in the end we have to get down to it and do the work ourselves.
The best thing you can do for your children is to love their mother. John Wooden
Thank you!
It’s like another old saying, “God helps those who help themselves.” I could go on about someone I know who talks about her goals and dreams, but doesn’t do anything significant to make them happen.
I hope CBH prays to be a good husband, father, and coach. If he concrentrates on those things, the rest should take care of itself.
by bruinbabe2000 on Jan 22, 2010 2:26 PM PST up reply actions
Coach's point
I don’t read this as a Coach announcing God is a Bruin. Rather, Coach is experiencing a horror in his life. He is a teacher and a coach and he does this at a place where there is lot of pressure. And all he has tried to do in his profession has been turned upside down. From an arrest (Dragovich) to a plethora of injuries to big time recruits not having the skill to please sink a stinking free throw to a kid who needs to leave so he can participate in a more “up tempo game”—who among us has had a professional disaster handed to them since the start of basketball season like Coach. Last night he looked like he had lost 10 pounds—he is in agony.
In that agony, he finds strength in God. My views of theology don’t link them to sports outcomes. But I know some people in moments of despair have turned to religion in its myriad forms and expressions of worship to get up of the ground and stare down adversity. And that’s what we need from Coach Howland right now.
I’m with you Coach—now tear their throats out!
God may be a Bruin
but if so, he works in mysterious ways….
by britishbruin on Jan 22, 2010 4:30 PM PST up reply actions
It is all...
about having faith and trusting in the lord and knowing things will always go as planned, even if it’s not what we want the man upstairs always knows what’s best in the long run.
I got a better sense of an omni-present God from reading a non-religious book called 'Flatland" by Abbott
Interesting book. Flatland is a two-dimensional world. The inhabitants have no concept of up or down. They can appreciate “Line Land,” where beings are points living on a line and can only go forward or backward, or Point Land, where each point only conceives of himself. Then somehow this Flatlander gets lifted out of Flatland into Space Land. As he looks down onto Flatland, he sees all of it at the same time. He can see inside of the creatures of Flatland, just as we can see inside a square we draw. But the spookiest thing for a Flatlander is to be able to touch the inside of a Flatlander without going through the outside.
Then think of what it would be like for a Space Land denizen to be taken to a fourth dimensional land. A space lander would be able to see everywhere at once, and could see backwards and forwards in time. Imagine being able to touch your liver without piercing your skin.
How many dimensions are there? You got me. But can there be an omnipotent, omnipresent God? I believe there can be based on not just faith but on logic as well. The logic part of that was helped by reading this book. (Interestingly, it was an assignment in Geometry class in the 10th grade.)
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