Following your Dreams

So a really great friend of ours is following his dreams to play on a professional football team. He had thought he would start small and play in the local leagues here in Corpus Christi, but then an opportunity made itself present, through a Michael Irvin reality show. The winner of this show gets a spot on the Dallas Cowboys training camp roster. It's the chance of a lifetime, and we support him completely for putting himself out there and trying, no matter what happens, it's just exciting to watch him and his wife go through this journey. One of Jonathan's favorite quotes is

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

How many of us could say that we have tried for everything that we ever wanted in our life, without letting doubt or other peoples doubt get in our way? Owen will be that man in the arena and we are so excited that we get to watch the journey, Way to go McClenny's!!!!