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There Are Some Things in Life You Don\u2019t Want to Miss!<\/h1>\n

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We all have times in our lives that we would describe as extraordinary moments.\u00a0 A day begins as normal and then suddenly something changes it. Today, I can barely tell this story without tears welling up in my eyes. It is interesting that before I trusted Christ as Savior over 48 years ago, I never cried.\u00a0 My heart was a chunk of rock. My poor young wife had married a stoic and had been learning that I was detached from emotion. I still remember the night I surrendered to the Lord.\u00a0 The floodgates opened for the first time in my life. God had put a heart of flesh into Old Granite.\u00a0 I still have a softened heart today.\u00a0 I don\u2019t mean I break down and weep when I read the price of soup in a supermarket isle, but I am more sensitive now to human suffering and to things of extraordinary beauty.<\/p>\n

One of the most difficult things we face as overseas missionaries is that we miss family events that most people take for granted. When our children returned home for higher education they were pretty much on their own. We gave them roots but the day came when we had to give them wings. But it isn\u2019t easy when they are \u00a07,000 miles away. This event happened when phone calls very costly and mail could take a month.\u00a0 And as incredible as our children are they still sometimes forget how to communicate when they leave home. Too many distractions I guess.<\/p>\n

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Ed and Janet Landry with Dan.<\/span> Photo courtesy: Ed Landry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our second eldest, Dan, began his journey back home by being accepted at UCLA.\u00a0 Dan was a great athlete and had been accepted to join the world-famous UCLA volleyball team. It was historically the top team in the country. Although no scholarships were available when he applied he was still invited based on a video we had taken of him his senior year at his high school, Faith Academy, in the Philippines<\/a>.\u00a0 Because the volleyball season was not during our two-month furlough schedule we never were able to see a volleyball game he played in during his four years at UCLA. We got an occasional video of a TV broadcast and saw some photos in a monthly magazine but that was it. It was excruciating for us.\u00a0 I asked God to let us see a game one day but that prayer seemed like it would never be answered. Then the end of Dan\u2019s collegiate volleyball career was at hand.\u00a0 The team had gone four years without a national championship, the longest in its history.\u00a0 But we could tell by what we read that UCLA was having a great year. Our son had set a kill record for the school which is no small achievement for a school like that.\u00a0 The national championships were to be held at home court, Pauley Pavilion. \u00a0This was to be their year.\u00a0 And as usual, our 2-month short furlough was timed just wrong. We had three children still in the Philippines and had to stay in the local school system calendar. We could not afford to go to the USA and then fly back and then one month later fly back again for furlough. It was out of the question.\u00a0 It hurt so much.<\/p>\n

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Dan at the 1996 Olympics, Atlanta.<\/span> Photo courtesy of PA Images; photo by Aubrey Washington\/EMPICS Sport.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During those years I did a lot of training for the Bible League and I traveled a lot.\u00a0 I received a message from them that they wanted me to go to Khuzestan to train some pastors and then on to Mexico to help with issues that had come up in their Latin American program. They also wanted me to meet with a person in Tijuana.\u00a0 Tijuana!\u00a0 That was the border town next to our home city, San Diego. The trip to San Diego would be two days before the NCAA preliminaries and then NCAA finals would be the following week! \u00a0I asked if I could stay the extra week in the San Diego area and attend the National Volleyball finals. They didn\u2019t care since the ticket price was the same and I could even stay at our home since a renter had just moved out and it was empty.\u00a0 It was perfect. Well, almost.\u00a0 My wife, Janet, could not go but at least Dad could see his son play for the first time in four years. God had answered my prayer, at least half of it.<\/p>\n

UCLA slaughtered everyone at the prelims. They were amazing. My heart was in my stomach all night and the next night. Dan was a great player, even better than what I envisioned. \u00a0I read the articles in Volleyball Monthly (we subscribed to it just to get news of him).\u00a0\u00a0 But even better, he was a great person.\u00a0 He never did get a scholarship. He earned his spot all the way while some of the scholarship players would sit on the bench. He spent his years at UCLA getting up at 3 AM and driving a bread truck to pay the bills. TV announcers who heard about it gave him his nickname which stuck with him for those years, \u201cthe Muffin Man.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0During his senior year, he rented space under a piano in someone\u2019s living room. That is where he slept part of that year. It kept costs down.\u00a0 Maybe spending time on the mission field helped him adapt. When he graduated from UCLA with degrees in history and international economics he had paid his own way through, had no school debts, owned two cars, had money in the bank and was one of the top volleyball players in the country.<\/p>\n

Back to our story. I got to be there the night UCLA qualified for the NCAA finals<\/a> which were one week away. I just had to make one of those expensive phone calls to Janet in Manila and share the event. We cried together on the phone. She was so happy. I was too but sad at the same time that she had to miss this great event.<\/p>\n

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Dan’s older sister, Michelle, having Dan sign her t-shirt at the 1993 NCAA Men’s Volleyball Finals.<\/span> Photo courtesy: Ed Landry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The week moved slowly and the big weekend arrived. The day of the finals was on a Friday. \u00a0I had to make an early morning visit again to that missionary in Tijuana where I stayed until about noon.\u00a0 When I drove back across the border in Mexico I knew I had to rush. I still had to return to our San Diego<\/a> area home and pack up my stuff since I would be flying out of Los Angeles International airport a few days later, the day after the finals. \u00a0So, I headed home to pack my bags, and then get on the road in my rented car to drive the three hours to UCLA, eat dinner, and get to the first semi-finals. I pulled up at my house and looked at my watch as I jogged to the front door and ran inside.\u00a0 But something was different.<\/p>\n

Janet was standing there.\u00a0 I stood there stunned. I broke down in tears. It was one of our longest hugs on record.\u00a0 For three hours as we drove to UCLA, she told me the story. After my phone call the week before, she went to our mission\u2019s annual conference. She told the group how much she missed being with me and Dan in this great moment of his life.\u00a0 One of the missionaries, Dan\u2019s former coach, Tine Hardeman, said to her, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you just sell something and go. There are some things in life you just don\u2019t want to miss.\u201d\u00a0 It was a light that needed to go on. In the next day, she managed to sell all our living room furniture. Our sofa set was really nice. We had saved our money for years to have it custom made of rattan. That sold quickly. She booked a flight and was standing in our home when I got there. She had arrived one hour before I walked in the door and had no idea where I was or how she would get to UCLA and then I walked in.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy: Ed Landry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had seen Dan the week before but she still hadn\u2019t seen him for two years. We had so much to talk about for three hours. I told him that there was a good reason he was a two-time All American and had set a record at UCLA.\u00a0 I knew the next two days would be really special for her. That alone made my weekend one of the most memorable in my life.\u00a0 We got to UCLA and I took her to her favorite Chinese fast food chain which was on campus and bought her a meal she loves. She couldn\u2019t eat one bite. She was so nervous to see Dan. We left and I tossed the plate of food in the trash can. We had a son to meet.\u00a0 I had called ahead to tell him Mom was here so he wouldn\u2019t be too emotionally shocked.<\/p>\n

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What a night.! UCLA annihilated their opponent. Dan introduced us around to players, coaches, sports announcers.\u00a0 Dan was a champion. Dan was a hero. Dan was our son. I had no buttons left on my shirt.\u00a0 We love our kids all the time. They don\u2019t have to excel to earn our love. But I must admit that a night like that is unbelievably special. We were to eventually go to two Olympics and watch this kid compete with the world\u2019s best. But as amazing as those Olympic events were I still go back to the NCAA finals as the most meaningful.\u00a0 There was so much drama, sacrifice and emotion involved.<\/p>\n

The next night the finals took place. Our humble little missionary kid son had over 40 kills and spent most of the night in the air. His 42-inch vertical jump was quite intimidating to his opponents. It was a night of glory. UCLA won it in straight sets, their first NCAA championship in four years. Dan was the standout player. We were the standout parents.\u00a0 At least that is how we felt.\u00a0 When it was over we mingled around the floor talking to people and Dan introduced us to a writer with Sports Illustrated who interviewed us.\u00a0 An article appeared next month in that magazine reporting on the championship and focusing on Dan and it told this amazing story of Dan\u2019s crazy Mom who sold her living room furniture to see her son play volleyball on the night of his life. I know it was the night of our life.<\/p>\n

On the flight back to the Philippines I still had tears in my eyes. My wife asked if I was alright. I said, \u201cI\u2019m fine. I am just trying to figure out where we will sit in our house for the next year!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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