We are going to kick things off with Clockwork Blog's slogan and mission on "What's Your Why?". We all have a reason for doing things whether it is bad or good but it is important to know your Why. What is the reason you do what you do or Why your dream what you dream.
To get to my Why, you have to understand my basketball career. I started playing basketball my junior year of high school. I sat on the bench my whole high school career, but throughout that time I had something to prove to my head coach. While trying to prove something to my coach I fell in love with basketball and it became my passion. I ended up being an intern coach after high school with Fuquay-Varina High School while trying to make a college team. Throughout those two years, I got cut countless times from many colleges just looking for one place to take a chance on me. Throughout this battle of getting no after no I fell in love with coaching and learning the game from a different perspective. Toward my third year of trying to make a team, I was at the point of just moving on and getting on with my life. My trainer called me and said he had a walk on for me. I went because at this rate I had nothing to lose. I went to the tryout and ended making the team with Fayetteville Technical Community College. Finally, someone was taking a chance on me. I was not the best player, but I was the most hard working even with a couple injuries that had happened while playing there. The head coach at Fayetteville Tech, Coach Hurd, is the reason Why I got into coaching. He cared for the players on another level and it was more than just a game to him. After the season, I signed with Toccoa Falls College in Georgia and was told by doctors that I could no longer play basketball at that level and had to unsign due to a pre-existing health issue. All my dreams of playing ball came to a crashing halt or so I thought.
After my college career I started coaching with the Apex Spurs Travel Organization and Grace Christian School in Sanford, North Carolina during the same time period. I was trying to learn different styles of coaching and work on my own coaching style. I ended up impacting kids in ways I could not imagine. With the Apex Spurs, I started as the Head Coach with the fourth grade team and moved up with them till their seventh grade year. Making relationships with these players and helping them through life was better than any win. During this time, I was also the Assistant Coach at Grace Christian where I learned how to involve God in basketball. With these two experiences happening hand to hand I finally figured out why I loved coaching so much.
Coaching is more the the W's/L's and X's/O's but the lives I was able to impact while being a coach. Winning is important but watching players and people grow was more rewarding than any win or championship. Combining two passions, God and basketball, I was put in a position I did not think was possible or could imagine. My Why was bigger than me and the game of basketball. I coach because it gives me a chance to reach into someone and pull out their potential that is within them. As a coach, you can see in players what they can not see in themselves. You have the privilege to speak into a players life and call out their potential. You are surrounded by walking treasures and the ones with the deepest problems may have the biggest treasures inside of them.
Jesus did not have to go on that cross to die for us. He was Jesus! Jesus turned water into wine, healed a leper, fed five thousand, and plenty of more miracles. So Why die for sinners like you and me? "This is how God showed his loved among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him (1 John 4:9)." Why God loved you and me so much that He sent Jesus to die for us.
Now what is your Why? There is always a reason why we do something. Your Why can be so simple or bigger than you can imagine. It can be for playing a sport, a dream, a career choice, that degree you are studying for, relationships, and more.
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