The wolf and the pack

Dear Friends in Christ -
I'm a student of excellence. I so enjoy seeing and hearing and tasting and touching and smelling things that are beautiful and delicious and delightful and good.
I love watching sports played at the highest levels to not only enjoy the sweetness of the perfect shot, but also to listen to the players and coaches bear witness to how it's done. There's skill, yes, but there's also practice and determination, the honing of desire into will.
In team sports, the most important thing always turns out to be how the chemistry of the team, how the team learns to work together to get the job done. Phil Jackson, coach of the L.A. Lakers, knows the importance of teamwork. He started learning what he knows when he was a player himself, and now he has coached teams to 9 NBA championships.
Phil already knows which team will win this year's championship: the team that plays best together. Phil has won a lot of rings, and he'd like to win another (a 10th ring would mean that he's coached more teams in winning it all than any other coach in the history of the NBA). But Phil can't do it without his team. As Phil says (quoting a Zen master): "The wolf is for the pack, and the pack is for the wolf."
May such excellence be ours in the work we do together for God's kingdom!
Faithfully,
Janet+