One of my absolute favorite things about leading WyldLife is rec sports. It seems like basically every girl I meet plays some sort of a rec sport or another constantly throughout the year (probably cause there's not much to do in Floyd County, but hey - gotta do what ya gotta do). This semester I've befriended some really awesome 6th grade girls that make up an entire rec basketball team and I absolutely love going to their games. It's really sweet because they love having me there too.
This past week I got to sit on the bench with the teams two injured players. Don't ask me how this happened but somehow both of them broke their legs. Crazy coincidence, but that just means I get to hang out with them during games.
It's amazing to me how much you can learn about girls just by watching them play basketball. It's kind of weird, but oh so sweet. Some girls have oodles of natural talent and seem to have it all together on that court. Yet others seem to have no idea what their doing, but try so hard to get it right and be seen as valuable by their teammates.
The whole game was such an accurate picture of life. Some of us seem to have our whole lives together. We're calm, cool, and collected hiding behind our natural talents and not revealing who we really are to the world around us. And some of us feel constantly invisible, not really great at anything but striving so so hard to be noticed and needed by the world around us. Being at rec games makes my heart break for these girls so many more ways than sitting with them in a lunch room does, and am I so thankful for that ability to catch a better glimpse of who they are and how much they need to know my sweet sweet Jesus.
Moral of the story? Head out to a rec game. You'll learn so much about the sweet kids you're running after just by watching them play and supporting them in this special way (:
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