Pigskin Parables: Devotions From the Game of Football: Pigskin Parables, #1

By Candee Fick

Life is like the game of football.

 

Teammates preparing for battle. Mentors coaching from the sidelines. Opportunities to persevere through trials, recover from injuries, regroup during a timeout, adjust after penalties, and celebrate the victories.

 

As the wife of a high school football coach, Candee Fick has learned a lot about life as illustrated on the football field. This short collection of devotional readings covers many aspects of the game of football as they relate to the faith-filled life. It offers a taste of what's to come in Pigskin Parables: Exploring Faith and Football.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Candee Fick
• Release date: Jul 29, 2011
• ISBN: 9781386619475

Candee Fick

Candee Fick is the wife of a high school football coach and the mother of three children including a daughter with Cornelia de Lange syndrome and a son with allergy-induced asthma. In addition to her personal experiences in the realm of special education, she is a volunteer Awareness Coordinator for the CdLS Foundation. She has published a dozen articles in publications including Exceptional Parent and Special Education Today. She has published several non-fiction titles including a book for parents with special needs children and several short or full-length devotionals on topics ranging from football to gardening. In the meantime, she is honing her fiction skills on inspirational romance and hopes to acquire an agent soon. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers. When not busy with her day job, writing, or speaking, Candee can be found shuttling her kids to various activities or reading a good book. She and her family make their home in Colorado.

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Introduction

Around our house, football reigns.

You see, my husband is a high school football coach. After teaching all day and running the team practice, he comes home to watch scouting films and scribble X's and O's on the nearest available pieces of paper. He relaxes on weekends by, what else, watching college and professional football games. Add free online fantasy leagues, a junior playing on his high school team, a 5th grader playing flag football at recess, and tackling practice in the middle of our living room . . .

So, what's a girl to do when surrounded by so much football? Watch and learn.

Learning about the game might help with dinner conversations and earn relationship points, but I'm talking about life in general. There are lessons to be learned and we'll be looking at several of them. The following is a collection of devotional readings inspired by previous posts on my blog at CandeeFick.com.

If you like these lessons about faith and life illustrated through the game of football, you might also like Book Two in the series. Pigskin Parables: Exploring Faith and Football is an eleven-week devotional with weekly topics, each with five days of targeted readings and practical application drills.

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Focus on the Fundamentals

‘Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?’ Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ~ Matthew 22:36-37

What season is this? Did you just you say fall? Well, technically it's still summer, but I'm thinking football season.

With a coaching husband and two boys, our