Facing The Giants

Going to meet Yanjie soon. But thought before that, I'd jot down some quotes from the "Facing the Giants" movie that we watched yesterday.

Here's the synopsis from Wikipedia:

Coach Grant Taylor at Shiloh Christian Academy has never had a winning football season. His car breaks down frequently, his house is falling down around him, and he and his wife are unable to have children. When he overhears school parents plotting to have him fired, he reaches a crisis point and prays. The turning point for Coach Taylor is shortly after an intensive time of prayer. An older man who walks the halls of the school praying for the students shows up unexpectedly in the coach's office with a message of encouragement. The timing of that message overcomes the Coach's reluctance to change focus.

The defining scene in the show was when, in the midst of training, Coach Grant decided to challenge the team captain, who at that time was, despite his natural leadership qualities, quite apathetic and passive. He challenged the young man to crawl across the entire football field with a quarterback on his back - blindfolded.

Here's how the challenge went.


Do watch it - it is one of the most moving movie scenes I've seen in a very long time.