Growing into place!
I know all moms with daughters will identify with this. When Vanessa was younger, three and four years old, she loved putting on my high-heeled shoes and wobbled around in them. She pranced in front of the mirror and I imagine she could not wait for a time when she could fit into those shoes.
I was reminded of that scenario this past week when I met with her coach to discuss her evaluation of the past basketball season (at school). Several of their top players were seniors and with two back to back state championships to their name it will be hard to follow in their footsteps. Will everyone expect them to play as the team did last year and the year before?
Maybe or maybe not. However, this is what they must remember, every person, every player has a different footprint. Allowances will be made if they don't play their best. After all, they will not have their players numbers this, that and the other. However, they can rise to the challenge and create the magic of a great team and amaze us all by playing their very best because they were a part of the best team in their league.
For a while little Vanessa teetered around in my shoes, several sizes too large. Ironically today, not too many years later, she wears a size larger than mine. We all know that especially with sneakers, the shoes seem to get molded to one's foot and no one else can be comfortable in those shoes. So do not seek to fill the shoes of others. Learn from them by all means. Then carve a path that is your own. Have your heroes, but don't live in their shadows for you must strive so others will learn and be inspired by you.
As we get into each tournament and each season, we are not looking for a replay of the best of our games. We are looking for new marvels, new inspiration, improvement and astonishing plays from unsuspected corners. That is what keeps the game fresh and exciting.
So as I watch your games as this season progresses, I will be looking to be enchanted, to be mesmerised, totally blown away by players who are electrifying, totally extraordinary. Players who have been well trained and have also learnt from other great players by reading their biographies and watching their games and beyond that modelled their own unique style.
Don't stay under the bar that already exists. Go on, raise the bar and then strive to keep raising it. Triumph is just "umph" added to try.
"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not..."
Galatians 6:9
To the Seniors who have graced our courts, delighted us all and raised the bar for entire generations to come the world ahead is even more exciting than this one that they leave behind. My words to them:
"Do not follow where the path may lead... go instead where there is no path and leave a trail..."
God's Little Devotional Book for Leaders
I know all moms with daughters will identify with this. When Vanessa was younger, three and four years old, she loved putting on my high-heeled shoes and wobbled around in them. She pranced in front of the mirror and I imagine she could not wait for a time when she could fit into those shoes.
I was reminded of that scenario this past week when I met with her coach to discuss her evaluation of the past basketball season (at school). Several of their top players were seniors and with two back to back state championships to their name it will be hard to follow in their footsteps. Will everyone expect them to play as the team did last year and the year before?
Maybe or maybe not. However, this is what they must remember, every person, every player has a different footprint. Allowances will be made if they don't play their best. After all, they will not have their players numbers this, that and the other. However, they can rise to the challenge and create the magic of a great team and amaze us all by playing their very best because they were a part of the best team in their league.
For a while little Vanessa teetered around in my shoes, several sizes too large. Ironically today, not too many years later, she wears a size larger than mine. We all know that especially with sneakers, the shoes seem to get molded to one's foot and no one else can be comfortable in those shoes. So do not seek to fill the shoes of others. Learn from them by all means. Then carve a path that is your own. Have your heroes, but don't live in their shadows for you must strive so others will learn and be inspired by you.
As we get into each tournament and each season, we are not looking for a replay of the best of our games. We are looking for new marvels, new inspiration, improvement and astonishing plays from unsuspected corners. That is what keeps the game fresh and exciting.
So as I watch your games as this season progresses, I will be looking to be enchanted, to be mesmerised, totally blown away by players who are electrifying, totally extraordinary. Players who have been well trained and have also learnt from other great players by reading their biographies and watching their games and beyond that modelled their own unique style.
Don't stay under the bar that already exists. Go on, raise the bar and then strive to keep raising it. Triumph is just "umph" added to try.
"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not..."
Galatians 6:9
To the Seniors who have graced our courts, delighted us all and raised the bar for entire generations to come the world ahead is even more exciting than this one that they leave behind. My words to them:
"Do not follow where the path may lead... go instead where there is no path and leave a trail..."
God's Little Devotional Book for Leaders
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