Luke 8:10 & Bob Knight

Last night while Cole (our 9 year old) was getting ready for bed we read from a kid's devotional Bible. It was the parable of the sower and it was interesting that we talked about Luke 8:10

     "They will look,

       but they will not see,

       and they will listen,

       but they will not understand."

After reading and talking about the parable, I laughed because I immediately thought of Coach Knight and his emphasis of "See vs Look" and "Listen vs Hear".

We are sharing the following from Coach Knight's book, "Basketball According To Knight & Newell":

The following words are what Knight describes as teaching devices.

"This is a big thing for us.  Everybody "looks", but there are few who "see".  A basketball player who can see is much better than a player who shoots 60% from 3pt line and cannot work to get open without the ball.  Our players hear us say a thousand times to quit "looking" and start "seeing".  You have to see what is going on.  When you face the basket with the ball, you have to "see".  Anyone can "look".  But it takes a player to "see" what is going on.

Everybod "hears", but few things are "listened" to carefully.