What kind of person are you when trouble is at your door? When the weight of the world is on your shoulder, are you the person you want to be? Do you stay the same person through tragedies for your friends and personal tragedies or are you strong for others but break down when similar things happen to you?

Late in 2014 an article was published in Sports Illustrated about Ryan Anderson and his personal struggles after his girlfriend committed suicide during the summer of 2013. (Click here to read the article.) What stuck with me through the time that has elapsed since then was how his Head Coach Monty William at the time and his wife Ingrid cared for Anderson throughout the grieving process and how Williams had pushed Anderson to get back going in life and not to sit around the whole time. I remember thinking that I would hope that I could be like coach Williams if I was ever in the same position.

It is easier to help someone else along when troubles happen to them than when it happens to us. Sadly for the William’s family they would be tested beyond anything they might have imagined possible. On the night of February the 9th Ingrid Williams, the wife of Monty was hit head on by a car that had passed over the centerline as she was driving with three of her five children, the children would be fine, a little banged up and bruised but okay. Ingrid was taken to the hospital where she would pass away from her injuries on the morning of Wednesday the 10th of February.

One of my favorite quotes is by Martin Luther King Jr.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

     - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Over the last week the world has had a front row seat to see just the man that Monty Williams really is, and he has not disappointed. In a time when anyone would give him a pass for a moment of weakness, coach Williams has been a shining example of faith, kindness, forgiveness and love. He spoke at his wife’s funeral a day ago and his eulogy is extremely powerful, and inspiring. Coach Williams, I will probably never meet you, but you have been and have continued to be a great example of how to be a friend, a father and a Christian. I pray that God gives you and your family peace in these hard times. I have posted the video of the eulogy that he gave and will let his words be the last words.