Father Snort

Brad Sullivan St. Mark’s, Bay City July 24, 2016 - Proper 12 Luke 11:1-13 You Can Do Better? No. You Are Enough “You can do better.” That was on the message we saw as we left the weight room gym of San Marcos Academy, where we stayed for our mission trip last week. The women slept in the guy, and men slept in dorm rooms with beds (thank you, Kathy), and the only place we could get ice for our work days was in the back of the men’s weight room in the gym. We left there each day with buckets of ice reading the same message that guys from the school saw each day as they left the weight room, exhausted from their workout, “you can do better.” I think the coaches or whoever put that message on the wall, probably intended it to be a motivational saying, but all I could think was that it was about the worst motivational saying I’d ever seen. When you’re completely worn out from lifting weights and your leg