AND or BUT?

photo by dave adamson

University of Alabama Head Coach, Nick Saban, has been a football coach in the NFL & college world since 1977. He's led many a team to numerous championships. 

What is the key?

During the draft process Saban knows that his scouts are going to present players with outstanding stats, so what he does is divide the papers into two piles: an AND pile & a BUT pile.

It might read like this: Johnny Smith has great hands & runs the 40-yard dash in a 4.4 AND stays after practice to help his freshmen teammates AND led a missions trip to New Orleans to help rebuild houses after Hurricane Katrina.

OR

Daniel Doe has a quarterback rating of 90 BUT he regularly gets involved in negative confrontations on social media 'or' BUT he has been arrested twice in the last 6 months for drunk driving.

What does this has to do with me, a woman who has no chance for the football draft? 

It's the AND & the BUT!!!

I want my life to be an AND, always an AND.

King Solomon started out his life as an AND, then turned it into a BUT, because his heart was swayed by what other people thought. Not because it was the right thing, the good thing. [see 1 Kings 3:3 & 11:4]