Last night our family got to witness a God Lesson first hand. What I love the most about it is that he worked it out through our son Lucas, and he will be able to look back at this at a time in his life to draw from when he is older. Lucas has been busting his butt all summer, I think even before summer, the first time he could get into that Basha gym and meet those Basha coaches, maybe even last summer, working out, going to football camps. Talking about A team B team... what ever, yeah I know the A team is suppose to be better... not putting anyone down here.. this is just what happened for us... I mean what 14 year old get's up at 5:30am in the summer and goes to the gym at school and lifts, etc. We have this philosophy in our parenting, not sure if it's right, i will take that back I know it is. We have never asked for a certain teacher for our kids, and we have never been the kind of parent to hang around at practices, Luke has been playing ball since he was 7 and some years 2 seasons he has had probably 10 different coaches, we let Luke's actions speak for themselves. We don't ask the coach can you put him on A team, we have never trained our children to whine about what they want, we say go out there and show that coach what you can do. I told Lucas just keep showing up, even if your the only one who always shows up, you keep showing up and don't complain. Because, God's the one who is ultimately in charge, not the coach, not the teacher, really not even mom and dad, and he will honor your commitment, and He is gonna place you were you are gonna be a blessing and where you are gonna be blessed the most. Luke got picked to be on the B team, he was devastated, at first because he felt it was because he was not good enough for A team. On B Team opening game Lucas was a captain, ran 2 touchdowns, he plays offense, defense, he is never on the sidelines, just to get a picture of what his games look like:)
Last nights game Luke dressed out with the A team he went in for 8 plays, his linebacker coach kept wanting to send him in for more, but was getting overwritten. Luke was frustrated, because the A team kept giving up so many points, and were playing a very non-cohesive game. At one time, the kid with his same postion, forgot to run on the field for the whole play, while Luke stood there just watching. The A team lost. When we picked Luke up, he was really frustrated, but he said one thing that really stuck out, I don't count that as my LOSS, MY HEART IS WITH MY UNDEFEATED B TEAM!!
It gave him a chance to see how thankful he was for his team, and how well they play together, he says the people at his school think that the B team is the better team, and who knows. Who knows what A and B mean, I just want my kids both to know that their security is not from what a team is labeled and not what they are called or not, but is because they belong to GOD!! and I am so thankful to GOD for bringing this down to his level.
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