A Day where you truly see how blessed you are.

Every Year my family holds a charity golf tournament benefitting the Make A Wish Foundation in our Fathers Name. It is always around the same time in November about a week or so after the anniversary of my dads death.
My Dad died in a freak accident 5 years ago, something that obviously shook me to the very foundation of who i am. Coming up on the 1 year anniversary a few years back my oldest brother had the idea to hold a Golf Tournament every year to honor our Dad, the first year we had just friends and family and co workers and people who knew our Dad. About 75 people played and it was a cool experience. The next year our field grew enough that we were able to give money to a childrens hospital. The last three years we have partnered with the Make A Wish Foundation.(for those who dont know Make A Wish grants wishes for kids with Life threatening Diseases.) Its cool to play a role in being responsible for sending a kid on the ONE thing they want to do if they could.
I gotts give it up to my two older brothers they spearhead this thing and do an awesome job at it , I do a few things here and there whatever they ask me to do but its there show. The Golf Tournament week is a weird week for me , You know its been 5 years but I still Miss my Dad every day, but i have gotten to a place that i can really focus on Good Memories of my Dad and good times and not dwell on the fact that he is gone. That kinda changes for me during Tournament week, its a week where I kind of go into that dwelling on it state of mind. The Golf Tournament day is an awesome day but its also kind of a tough day in alot of ways, I hope that makes sense. There is no doubt though our Golf Tournament has become one of , if not the most important day of the year to me.
So yesterday we held the 5th annual Greg Mitchamore Memorial Tournament and man it looked like the rain was gonna get us, after years of good weather it looked like our luck had run out. Just as it started raining on us , God showed us that he was looking out for us and the sky cleared and we had a great day of golf.
My oldest brother Byron always handles the post tournament duties of speaking and thanking everyone every year. He said something this year that really rang home for while thanking everyone he mentioned that majority of people here , attend the tournament year in and year out with a good portion being there all 5 years. I got to thinking about and he is right , it is truly awesome and a blessing to see all these people show up every single year and come out and give money and show there support. The fact of the matter is in these times most people cant give and alot of just dont want to , but we are blessed with so many people in our lives that defy that and come out and allow us to be successful and brighten up the life of some kids who really need it.
I have no doubt that God has his hand on our tournament every year , I mentioned the weather , the turnout every year , bringing the same people every year. It is really cool to see the different spectrum of people out there whether its old friends of my dad or friends of mine or friends of my brothers you truly see how blessed you are when you try to do something like this and people come out to participate in force!
It's something that i am truly thankful and feel blessed to be a part of. Its also something that i feel truly thankful and am truly blessed by everyone that shows there support. I cant begin to correctly explain what it means to our family , we were blessed to have the Dad we had and we are blessed that all of you help us to do something special every year in his name.

Blessings,
Blake