Tuesdays with Morrie

I just recently finished the book "Tuesdays with Morrie". It is a riveting book about a college professor dying of ALS and his final Tuesdays spent with a former student. In the last weeks of his life Morrie shares the lessons of life with Mitch Tuesday after Tuesday.

Mitch called Morrie "Coach". This reminds me of what I feel the calling of my life. It is simply wrapped up in six words "freely you have recieved, freely give". Coach in my life was a man named William. Despite our differences he invested his life into mine. It took me several years of self-centered me focus to realize that all the lessons William passed on to me, where not for me or at least me alone.

At the end of the book Morrie tells Mitch how we never die but that our words and lessons we have passed on live on with those we have coached. I often hear the echoes of William in my life. Just the same as those I have coached probably hear the echoes of my lessons in their life.

To all my kids -- the one lesson that threads every other lesson together is simply this "give away what you have been given". Become someones coach...

"we are Tuesday people" said Morrie. Funny Timmy, Robby, and I are Tuesday people.