The man that changed my life. It all starts out in high school, freshman year to be on point. This story is not just going to be over just one day, It’s going to take four years. Now I know you are saying that is to long, well it’s just little at a time. It took years to change me as a person. The man I’m talking about is an old football coach, his name is Jeff Harig. He was born November 21, 1970 in Massillon, Ohio he went to Massillon Washington High School. His Religious Views Baptist. His Political Views, Republican Party. He is married with two kids. He moved to my hometown about 13 years ago and started to be a coach at Loudon High School. And a personal finance teacher. He also teaches the Dave Ramsey program.
It all started out after a football game. It was an away game. Not like any other because after we had a little get together and my football coach was taking about god and the way that he was talking about him I have never heard it before. He was taking about john 19 to 38. 18"I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture: 'He who shares my bread has lifted up his heel against me. I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He. I tell you the truth, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me." After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, "I tell you the truth, one of you is going to betray me. His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, "Ask him which one he means. “Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, "Lord, who is it?" Jesus answered, "It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish." Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon. As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. "What you are about to do, do quickly," Jesus told him, but no one at the meal understood why Jesus said this to him. Since Judas had charge of the money, some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the Feast, or to give something to the poor. As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night. When he was gone, Jesus said, "Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once. "My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come. “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus replied, "Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later."Peter asked, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you." Then Jesus answered, "Will you really lay down your life for me? I tell you the truth, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times! So I realize that god was everything. That helped me out a lot because before that day I was a bad kid I would lie and still. Before I know god I went in Walmart I was with the wrong people like all so I Stoll something from Walmart and the cops came and my mom and dad had to come get me and I had to go to court and they had to pay for that and I had to do 55 hours of community service. Even before that I would get in fights for no reason and pick on people. The way I seen it if I didn’t pick on they would pick on me, so I did. I would be the one kid that was mean to the teacher when I know they was having a bad day. I didn’t care until coach Harig showed me God. I’m better now that I know god.
But it was not that easy. I did find good but the one that I trusted the most let me down. Jeff and all of the other coach said that I was a bad football player and will never play and some of them said that I was so a worthless piece of shit. How says that to a kid. So it hurt so much that, I had to prove them wrong so ever practice I would work harder and harder, faster and faster. But it was because of god I could do that. One day I got my change. It was the first week of the season and Jeff was like Brandon come here and I had to fight for a spot on the field so I went blow them off the ball and that Friday now I didn’t get to play much that first game but as the weeks passed and he know that I was the best lineman he had. Even tho he would not said that.
Time for my senior year when he thought I was ok at football. He was hard on him because I was a starter but he still said I was not good enough to go to college and play. But the last time I look I play at Carson-Newman. And all of it was because of god.
Thought all the ups and down I have to thank Jeff Harig. The way he charged me ,it worked. But I guess the way he seen me he know it would work.