Hi Kathy,
Thanks for sending it. This really puts it into perspective doesn't it?
Virgie and Hoshi
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From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 9:52 AM
Subject: a devotional about Kathy Holmgren
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> Okay Guys,
> I sent you an article about Mike a few weeks ago, so, when I saw this
> purpose driven devotional about his wife, I just had to pass it
> along. Maybe I'm just tooting a horn of sorts. I just get psyched
> about this stuff sometimes I guess and want to share. In case you
> don't know, Mike Holmgren is the coach of the Seattle Sea Hawks, who
> lost the super bowl this past Sunday. Before that, however, he was
> the coach of my beloved Packers! He's just a neet guy who is doing
> as well as Jimmy Johnson, without the baggage.
> God bless,
> Kathy
>
>
>
> February 07, 2006
>
>
> The Ultimate Mission
> by John Fischer
>
> What could make you more nervous than a trip to Central Africa that
> requires three days of traversing marginal roads narrowing to near
> non-existence, wading
> through streams, and crossing rough-hewn and often improvised bridges
> to get to a remote village in northwestern Congo? According to Kathy
> Holmgren, wife
> of Seattle Seahawk coach, Mike Holmgren, watching her husband's team
> play in the Super Bowl would have been more difficult to do. So when
> she discovered
> that a trip to accompany her daughter, an obstetrician, on a medical
> mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo was going to conflict
> with the Super Bowl,
> she decided to stick with the trip. "The actual game makes me so
> nervous I don't watch anyway."
>
> I understand exactly what she means. In a recent devotional I related
> my own nervousness viewing the collegiate football championship game,
> and I certainly
> was not anywhere near being connected to either of the teams in that
> contest the way Kathy Holmgren is connected to the Seahawks. (See
> "Rose Bowl Visitation"
> January 6, 2006.)
>
> As it turned out, she made the right choice in that her husband's
> Seahawks lost the game. Had they won, it still would have been the
> right choice. All this
> has turned out to be a great study in priorities that has received
> considerable media coverage due to the glut of news information this
> annual football
> classic always garners.
>
> "(ABC) and other media are fascinated that Kathy's going to the end
> of the earth instead of being at the center of the universe," said
> Ann Brooks, a former
> television news journalist and currently executive director of
> communications for Northwest Medical Teams. But what no one has
> mentioned yet is the importance
> of being neither at the end of the earth nor the center of the
> universe, but in the center of God's will. To see this correctly is
> to see it as people
> with a purpose living their lives well in whatever arena they find
> themselves.
>
> So while Dad was fighting it out in the grandest arena of his sport,
> Mom and daughter were fighting to establish and train the staff of a
> medical hospital
> in one of the smaller arenas of the world. And in the end, which one
> counts more? Though you might think that in a devotional, the medical
> mission gets
> the nod, I don't think so. In truth, if all of these people are doing
> what God asked of them, then nothing could be greater or more
> significant. Coaching
> a Super Bowl and serving on a medical mission are equally important
> if you are fulfilling what God put you here to do.
>
> http://www.covchurch.org/cov/news/item4724.html
> http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/don_banks/01/30/holmgren.insider/index.html
>
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> Okay Guys,<br>
> I sent you an article about Mike a few weeks ago, so, when I saw this
> purpose driven devotional about his wife, I just had to pass it
> along. Maybe I'm just tooting a horn of sorts. I just get
> psyched about this stuff sometimes I guess and want to share. In
> case you don't know, Mike Holmgren is the coach of the Seattle Sea Hawks,
> who lost the super bowl this past Sunday. Before that, however, he
> was the coach of my beloved Packers! He's just a neet guy who is
> doing as well as Jimmy Johnson, without the baggage.<br>
> God bless,<br>
> Kathy<br><br>
> <br><br>
> <font size=4>February 07, 2006<br><br>
> <br>
> The Ultimate Mission<br>
> by John Fischer<br><br>
> What could make you more nervous than a trip to Central Africa that
> requires three days of traversing marginal roads narrowing to near
> non-existence, wading<br>
> through streams, and crossing rough-hewn and often improvised bridges to
> get to a remote village in northwestern Congo? According to Kathy
> Holmgren, wife<br>
> of Seattle Seahawk coach, Mike Holmgren, watching her husband's team play
> in the Super Bowl would have been more difficult to do. So when she
> discovered<br>
> that a trip to accompany her daughter, an obstetrician, on a medical
> mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo was going to conflict with
> the Super Bowl,<br>
> she decided to stick with the trip. "The actual game makes me so
> nervous I don't watch anyway."<br><br>
> I understand exactly what she means. In a recent devotional I related my
> own nervousness viewing the collegiate football championship game, and I
> certainly<br>
> was not anywhere near being connected to either of the teams in that
> contest the way Kathy Holmgren is connected to the Seahawks. (See "Rose
> Bowl Visitation"<br>
> January 6, 2006.)<br><br>
> As it turned out, she made the right choice in that her husband's
> Seahawks lost the game. Had they won, it still would have been the right
> choice. All this<br>
> has turned out to be a great study in priorities that has received
> considerable media coverage due to the glut of news information this
> annual football<br>
> classic always garners.<br><br>
> "(ABC) and other media are fascinated that Kathy's going to the end
> of the earth instead of being at the center of the universe," said
> Ann Brooks, a former<br>
> television news journalist and currently executive director of
> communications for Northwest Medical Teams. But what no one has mentioned
> yet is the importance<br>
> of being neither at the end of the earth nor the center of the universe,
> but in the center of God's will. To see this correctly is to see it as
> people<br>
> with a purpose living their lives well in whatever arena they find
> themselves.<br><br>
> So while Dad was fighting it out in the grandest arena of his sport, Mom
> and daughter were fighting to establish and train the staff of a medical
> hospital<br>
> in one of the smaller arenas of the world. And in the end, which one
> counts more? Though you might think that in a devotional, the medical
> mission gets<br>
> the nod, I don't think so. In truth, if all of these people are doing
> what God asked of them, then nothing could be greater or more
> significant. Coaching<br>
> a Super Bowl and serving on a medical mission are equally important if
> you are fulfilling what God put you here to do.<br><br>
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> eudora="autourl">
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