Cornerstone Community Church, San Jose Ca

I have always been jealous of people who were able to jump high enough to dunk a basketball. I've had a love affair with basketball since I was in the 3rd grade. I loved to dribble, I loved to make a good pass, and I loved to make a shot. But what I really wanted to do was to dunk, like the guys I saw on TV. And as I got a little older it was my assumption that my day would come, that it was just a matter of time before I got tall enough to dunk a ball. But the best I could ever do was to touch the rim … just barely. I never came close to dunking a ball. And although I'm only 5'10" and could thus use my lack of height as something of an excuse, I eventually played against guys my same height who could, as we used to say, "jump out of the gym." I remember seeing some short kid like me take off down the court, rise up and dunk the ball and thinking I had just seem some kind of miracle. In my mind, he had defied gravity. And for a time, my greatest dream was to do the same thing.