Off the charts!

There are a couple of reasons why I've called this post "Off the charts!" One is because of the gorgeous day we enjoyed in north Texas yesterday. It was about as beautiful a Fall day as you could imagine. It started off cool, crisp and clear so that you needed a jacket to start the day. The temperatures gradually warmed so that by noon the jacket was unnecessary. Into the afternoon and evening the weather was just about perfect. A glorious day!
The second reason for the title of the post is because of the news report where head football coach Mike Leach was going off about the #21 ranked Texas Tech Red Raiders loss to the Texas A & M Aggies last Saturday. In case you missed it, the Aggies thrashed Tech by a score of 52-30. This was after the Ags were humiliated the week before at Kansas State where they were favored to win by a couple of touchdowns. Nobody expected the Aggies to win at Tech. In fact, they were expected to lose by three touchdowns. As you can tell by the score, the Aggies went to Lubbock and shellacked Tech. Adam works out nearly every day in the same facility with the A & M football players. I asked him what he thought made the difference in the team and he said that he heard from a few of the players that their coach came down on them pretty hard last week, even to the point of questioning their manhood, so they were mad and fired up and ready to take it out on someone last Saturday. Anyway, back to Leach. In a postgame interview he was saying that his team listened to "their fat little girlfriends" too much instead of listening to the coaches and getting ready for the game. His conclusion was that their girlfriends convinced them that they were going to steamroll the Aggies. Further, he said he was going to make the team pay for their lackluster performance this week with some tough practices and if "their fat little girlfriends" didn't like it, that was tough. Isn't that incredible? It is "off the charts" foolish for a man in his position to talk like that. I was talking with Adam some more about it last night and told me that Leach even has a Juris Doctor degree (lawyer). That makes it even more amazing to me that he would talk like that. Maybe he is trying to get his team fired up and mad for their next game.
Choose your words carefully, especially to the people you love. The old school yard rhyme is not true. "Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Words have tremendous power, both for positive and negative results. Do your best to use your words to bless the lives of those around you. Have a great day!

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer. (Psalm 19:14)

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer every one. (Colossians 4:6)