I remember being a kid in my backyard, playing basektball and pretending I made the game-winning shot to win the college basketball national championship. It seems like it wasn't more than a few years ago that I was playing baseball in the front of my house, imagining I had just hit a home run to win game 7 of the World Series. I can picture myself as clear as day doing all of these activities with my brother--some of the best memories of my life.
It's amazing to me that as young people, we never imagine ourselves missing a game winning shot, or striking out to lose the biggest game of our life. But, as we get older, we experience failure more and more, and the thought of losing becomes easier and easier for us to grasp. In a way, it's sad. I know at some point in life, we need to grasp reality, but I think it is important for us to always see ourselves as a hero. We need to never let go of the fact that no matter who we are, we are capable of amazing things in life.
I am convinced that we lead ourselves into an inevitable failure in parts of life because we become too accustomed to it, and accept it without a fight. We grow to accept a bad economy. We accept being a parent that does not take a part in our kids youthful days. This week, I want us to all work on seeing ourselves as capable of being the hero that we believed we were in our youth. The Lord never wants us to sell ourselves short in the workplace, in parenthood, or in any area of life. We need to allow our maturity and life experience provide the guidelines for the goals we set while never diminishing our capabilities.
Finally, I think it is very important to help our spouses, children, friends, etc...to rediscover that passion and belief in those we love. That is one of the greatest gifts we can give someone who is close to us--our belief in them.
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