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Ask anyone who’s ever wrestled and they’ll tell you: it’s hard.

This past Sunday, I was honored to receive the Medal of Courage from the Oklahoma Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Seven of us were inducted that evening. In every speech, one theme kept coming back: wrestling is hard. But strong people are built through hard things, and it takes courage to do them. Most of us see ourselves as courageous, yet we rarely ask ourselves when we last did something courageous. When was the last time we did something hard?

In 2017, I was injured and had a C3/C4 fusion, a collapsed lung, a feeding tube, a catheter, and a chest tube. After two weeks in ICU, I spent 42 days at the most intensive spinal cord rehabilitation center in the US. Along with my faith and family, wrestling was one of the main reasons I made it through. Wrestling demands so much of you physically, mentally, and emotionally, often with little recognition in return. And unlike most sports, you can’t hide behind teammates when things get tough.

This award reminded me that courage isn’t the absence of fear, pain, or uncertainty. It’s choosing to keep going in the midst of them. Wrestling taught me we can endure far more than we think, and our hardest seasons can shape us in ways we never imagined. You never know when the hard things you’re doing today are preparing you for the hardest thing you’ll face tomorrow.

So I’ll leave you with the question I keep asking myself: When was the last time you did something courageous?

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Left my bag of wind in Montauk

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Art

Art is in the simple joys

Art is Gods creation

Art is in expression

Art is in how someone is loved

Art is in discipline

Art is in the known and unknown

Art is in familiarity

Art is me

Art is you

Art is in the glam of a night

Art is in the slowness of an evening

Art is in the new

Art is in the laughter

Art is in the rest

Moments that replay in your mind, art

Art, moments your mind replays

But what she did not know, is that ..

maybe being an artist was never about the creating—it was about who brings out the artist within you.

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I think i have to be one of Gods favorites because look at the people he has surrounded me with !!!

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Sure is fun painting this house

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The best sermons are lived, not preached.

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what year were you born? 😂

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An ongoing campaign to convince the brother-in-laws to move back to Tulsa.

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Tulsa boys

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Gasoline (n.):
A volatile, flammable liquid fuel made from refined crude oil, primarily used to power internal-combustion engines

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Probably not OSHA-approved

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It’s time for another YA worship night!! Campfire Worship Night, Nov 21. 6pm! SAVE THE DATE! 🪵🔥

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