{"id":463,"date":"2012-09-22T03:50:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T03:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kandynolesstevens.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2012-09-22T03:50:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T03:50:20","slug":"8-days-to-go-weve-got-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"8 days to go: We’ve got spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We are Lakers!
Photo borrowed from my friend, Cathie Bueltel<\/p><\/div>\n

This year has seen a return to Laker football something that has been missing for quite a few years \u2013 cheerleaders!\u00a0 These sweet girls and their awesome leaders are doing a fabulous job! I am so proud of them and all the hard work that they have clearly put in, and they should be proud too.\u00a0 Their presence really makes a difference in the atmosphere of a game.\u00a0 They have been a delightful addition to the football experience at Lakeview. Wow! Talk about a half-time performance!<\/p>\n

But isn\u2019t that true about most things in life?\u00a0 A ho-hum experience can turn into a great thing with the right kind of support and enthusiasm.\u00a0 I think back to all the students I have taught in 21 years and I have seen many sparks ignited simply because I or another teacher believed in a student.\u00a0 An average student with a passion can change the world.\u00a0 One of my favorite sayings is \u201cIt isn\u2019t aptitude, but attitude, that determines your altitude.\u201d<\/p>\n

How much more could we all accomplish if we had our own little cheering section?\u00a0 In an earlier blog, I shared about how my personal cheerleaders really boosted my spirits when\u00a0completing the triathlon.\u00a0 I recently heard a story about how a peanut butter sandwich boosted a friend who completed the Breast Cancer 3-day (all 60 miles of it).\u00a0 I know that Sawyer worked a little harder when the \u201ccheerleading\u201d posters arrived for his Mayo hospital room from Auntie Ellen\u2019s class in North Dakota.<\/p>\n

Apparently advertisers know this little secret too because there is a sweet commercial right now about a gal in a bike competition and her husband who does all this cheering along the way.\u00a0 He cheers, he makes signs out of boxes, and then he is waiting at the finish line with a pizza box with a love note written in it. We all\u00a0KNOW a little positive encouragement works.\u00a0 But how often do we make time to do it?<\/p>\n

An opportunity to encourage all kinds of people is coming up in 8 days.\u00a0 As a Reed\u2019s Run committee, we are looking for lots of people to help us out.\u00a0 This request doesn\u2019t require any special training nor does it have a long time commitment.\u00a0 We need pockets of people along the race route to cheer people on. Families, clubs, organizations, church groups, heck \u2013 knitting groups and book clubs are perfect.\u00a0 We simply need you to show up and cheer on the runners when they come running by.<\/p>\n

Maybe running or walking a 5k\u00a0isn\u2019t for everybody.\u00a0 But all of us have the ability to spread some encouragement.\u00a0 I won\u2019t be donning my old uniform nor digging out my pompoms, but I WILL be there close to the finish line cheering every single runner on!<\/p>\n

If you know the history of Reed\u2019s Run, this is one opportunity that we all have to be like Reed and encourage others.\u00a0And what better place than his run.\u00a0\u00a0His motivation was because he was filled with spirit (the Holy Spirit).\u00a0 So, we can all confidently say, “We’ve got Spirit! Yes, we do!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year has seen a return to Laker football something that has been missing for quite a few years \u2013 cheerleaders!\u00a0 These sweet girls and their awesome leaders are doing a fabulous job! I am so proud of them and all the hard work that they have clearly put in, and they should be proud […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[94,185,298,341,526,586],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realsweetgrace.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}