What's an Off-Season?

If your husband coaches dual sports, you are probably asking the same question.  You may hear the word off-season, but your coach works 12 months every year! 

At the last school where he coached, we had the awesome opportunity to be a part of 2 outstanding seasons.  The football team went 13-1 and the baseball won the state championship title.  The year before that, the football team went 12-1 and the baseball made it to the state championship series.  So, those 2 years were pretty busy for us, not to mention we had our 3rd child at Christmas of the last year!  But you know what, we made it!  And we actually enjoyed it!

As wives and moms, just like our husbands, we don't ever really have an "off-season".  No time outs, no dead weeks, no rules about when we can or can't practice :).  What we do have is a Saviour, friend, and helper that desires for us to glorify Him in all we do.  And that means by "helping" our husbands and taking one for the team every now and then so he can get his work done.  I promise there is perfect peace in doing so. 

I read a devotional book by Charles Spurgeon every day called Morning and Evening.  This is a piece of the writing for today, February 15:

"Lord, help me to glorify You; I am poor, help me to glorify You by contentment; I am sick, help me to give You honor by patience; I have talents, help me to extol You by spending them for You; I have time, Lord, help me to redeem it, that I may serve You; I have a heart to feel, Lord, let that heart feel no love but Yours and glow with no flame but affection for You; I have a head to think, Lord, help me to think of You and for You; You have put me in this world for something, Lord, show me what that is, and help me to work out my life purpose: I cannot do much, but as the widow put in her two small coins, which were all her living, so, Lord, I cast my time and eternity, too, into Your treasury; I am all Yours; take me, and enable me to glorify You now, in all that I say, in all that I do, and with all that I have."

Be encouraged!  Most importantly, pray for your coach and his players.  Put Jesus first - in everything.  What is a season in comparison to eternity?!