Christmas Spirit

Here we all are on Christmas Eve at no other time of the year do we enjoy life more. Everyone other than when they are trying to steal a parking place away give just a little where at other times we live in the I need, I need world.

We watch our athletes and enjoy their performances. We forget sometime the sprained ankles the bruises they endure to perform at the high level that we expect. This fall we have seen two of our local performers go down with life threatening injuries.

Terry Pittman at Red Oak Middle while practicing to do his sport better. Colt Brake while in the middle of a game went down with an injury very much the same as Pittman. I hope you have either seen the story of Colt's return home Wednesday or read it.

There is good news for Terry that he is also home for the holidays. He has been in the back ground mainly because he is in middle school where Colt is a high schooler. Both of these young men have endured what we all hope never happens to anyone at any time ever again.

Colt will be returning back to the the Shepard Center in Atlanta in early January and Terry is headed there also for the first time.

Many have stepped forward in Christian ways to help both to have a little better life. Then there is the non injuries that happen to us. This week during the Holiday Basketball Tournament many may have seen Tanika Hudgins in attendance. Just a decade again she was one of the great athletes in Gryphon history. Today she has been stricken with MS. She was there with family in tow following little sister Tia on the basketball court from a wheel chair.

We know not what our future brings. We need to live life as if there is no tomorrow and treat our fellow man better than being just some one annoying me. We should thank God for what we have and during this season of joy try to spread the joy every day not just the days around Christmas.