Gale sayers biography i am third soccer
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He chose the title based on his philosophy about life. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”
The defining elements of our lives is this two-fold commandment of love; God and neighbor. “Surgeons are aggressive, hard-charging guys,” Beattie told Morris. Few of us will ever have the platform of a Hall-of-Fame running back and even fewer will have to make an ‘in the moment’ decision of sacrificing our life for others.
The music, especially the theme song, composed by Michel Legrand, was beautiful and elegiac. It was a bold and courageous last act. This election cycle was about winning and only winning over those who disagree with us. This is the greatest and the first commandment. An outcome of making decisions that honor others is that we will genuinely be the humble servants of God – and third.
"Brian’s Song": What Really Happened
When Brian’s Song aired as a made-for-television film forty years ago this week, it was such a hit that it was eventually shown in theaters.
“You would listen to Dr. Beattie and you would go ahead and do,” Joy Piccolo later recalled.
Beattie told Piccolo that the first operation had been a success and, soon thereafter, Piccolo was telling friends that he was “cured” of cancer. But do not use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh; rather, serve one another through love.
That friendship becomes deeper and stronger as Piccolo helps Sayers recover from a severe knee injury. His last admission, Morris reported, was “torture,” as he spent “hours out of bed, being wheeled, poked, turned, punctured, manipulated.”
Most importantly, Morris reported that Piccolo and his wife Joy had grown increasingly skeptical of their doctors’ optimism but felt powerless to question them.
The intended connection between God, others, and us is not a zero-sum relationship. Piccolo was white and Sayers an African American.
I had seen the movie, Brian's Song, and as I often do with impactful movies, I sought out the book upon which the movie was based. We are familiar with the scripture from Matthew 22:34-40 – When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
He wrote his own prayer that he recites nightly:
O Lord, I don’t ever expect to have the faith of Abraham,
Nor do I, O Lord, ever expect to have the leadership of Moses,
Nor the strength of Samson, nor the courage of David, nor the wisdom of Solomon…
But what I do expect, O Lord, is your calling on me some day.
What is your will, I shall do, what is your command, shall be my joy.
And I shall not fail you, O Lord, for you are all I seek to serve.
Mother Theresa expressed it as, JOY is Jesus, Others, Yourself.
Serving through love is emphasized by Jesus.
The book was even more powerful than the movie. The diagnosis was grim: a grapefruit-sized, highly malignant cancer known as a teratoma in Piccolo’s chest. It turns out the actual story of what happened to Piccolo is even more instructive, and especially relevant for modern cancer patients and health professionals struggling to balance hope and reality.
Brian Piccolo was a 26 year-old running back for the Chicago Bears in the fall of 1969 when he developed a cough and difficulty breathing.
Consider Charlie DeLeo, a Vietnam hardened tough kid from New York’s Lower East Side. Piccolo’s surgeries, attempting to remove more and more cancer cells, were aggressive and painful. Even though he is unable to afford fancy clothes or go out much, he sponsors six orphans through a children’s organization.