HEAD FOR THE LIGHT
Vince Lombardi wrote a book entitled Run To Daylight. It contains a chapter on running backs. It describes how football players learn all the plays, and then practice them over and over again until everything becomes practically automatic. And when game- time arrives, they have to remember all the numbers, and all the signals, and all the advice, and all the coaching. But as the running back tucks the ball under his arm and begins to run, he has time to remember just one thing, Lombardi says — to run to daylight. If the hole in the opposing team’s defense doesn’t open where you expected it to open up and you see daylight somewhere else — you run to daylight. And if you get through the line and the secondary begin to close in — again — you look for the light and run for the light. In Bethlehem, with the coming of Jesus, a light had dawned in Israel.…
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