Well in the last two weeks, it was the best of times and it was the worst of times.  This has been my life as the assistant coach and defensive co-ordinator of the Golden Gophers.  Two weeks ago we pitched our second straight defensive shutout, we scored our first touchdown of the year, we played hard through a driving rain in single digit temperatures that would make a grown man cry in agony, and of course our kids did too.  All of this happened on the way to winning our first game of the season.  The kids were starting to run and hit like real football players.  They seemed to finally get it!  It was so exciting that I lost my voice for a day or two afterwards.

 Then came the next week.  I wondered where our team went and who the kids wearing the yellow jersey's were.  The team was terrible.  The didn't run.  They didn't hit.  They didn't know the plays.  They looked like figure skaters with football jerseys on, minus the athleticism.  We got absolutely trounced.  It was honestly embarrassing.  It was a team we should have at least played closely if not beaten, and instead we were never really in it losing 12-0.  I love being their coach and all, but that was about as frustrated as I've been since . . . oh ya, since I watched Brian Griese play like Rex Grossman minus the arm strength earlier that afternoon.  All in all it was a terrible day for football.

Then it was just tonight it kind of realized that if the inconsistancy of my middle school boys minor football team frustrated me that much, how much more frustrating must it be for God to see the consistant incosistancy in our lives and in the life of the church.  We sometimes get things so right, and then turn around and blow it just as badly, often all within a given day!  If I'm going to get frustrated and make my team run wind sprints at practice after Sunday's game, than I should deal with myself with the same kind of conviction when I show that kind of inconsistancy.  All I can do is hope that the difficult practices lead to more consistancy for my team and in my life.