MANY A GOOD MAN HAS FAILED BECAUSE HE HAD HIS WISHBONE WHERE HIS BACKBONE SHOULD HAVE BEEN. “Have not I commanded thee?Be strong and of a good courage;be not afraid,neither be thou dismayed:for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest”(Joshua 1:9) ‘At one point during his youth,baseball great Jackie Robinson began to run with a neighborhood gang.In later years,he recalled that while he had wished for a better life as a boy and teen,he had no understanding that a gang was not the way to achieve it.An older friend finally came to Jackie and made him realize how much he was hurting his hard-working mother,as well as how much he was limiting himself.Robinson said, “He told me that it didn’t take guts to follow the crowd,that courage and intelligence lay in being willing to be different”. Jackie listened,left the gang,and traded his wishbone for a backbone.He began to work on developing his own physical potential and within a few short years,became a sensational athlete.Starring in football,basketball,baseball,and track at UCLA,he was the first person to win athletic awards in all four sports at the university.He went on to play pro football with the Los Angeles Bulldogs before being drafted for World War II duty.After the war,he signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers.Not only did Jackie Robinson become the first black baseball player in the major leagues,but he was voted rookie of the year. Backbone accomplishes more than wishbone!’
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 15:34:11 +0000
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