When you play the across town rivals...

...it will likely be the biggest game of the season. And I assure you it was! No matter that Caleb is only in 7th grade, this is BIG! I should also point out that Caleb attends our local Christian school which is considerably smaller than the community school, and through 3rd grade he attended the public school with these boys. Those things combined make it even bigger for Caleb on a personal level. Oh and then add that Jeff, my husband, is the coach and he actually graduate from the public school but has totally made the change in loyalties to our private school! Tensions run high at my house!

I would like to be able to tell you that it was David and Goliath and our team stormed across town to defeat the giant. Unfortunately that was not the case and we ended up on the wrong side of the score. It was a very close game and we were within one point even! But it was just not meant to be our day.

There were some things beyond the actual game that I took note of. Like in the 4th quarter when the game was really tight and we were threatening to take the lead. Suddenly we made some blunders and the public school went up by 4. Now I am all for cheering for your team and will be the first to yell, scream and get very involved in the excitment. But when a group of girls from public began chanting derogatory 'cheers', I was disappointed in their lack of character. At the conclusion of the game, our crowd stood and applauded our boys longer that the public school did, despite the fact we were on the losing end. Our boys also, while disappointed, did not hang their heads, cry, whine, or throw temper tantraums. And when we got home last night, neither Caleb or Jeff were terrible out of sorts about the whole thing.

It was one game of many. A big game? Yes, but still just one game.

How many times do we have situations like this in life? Where we take ONE little incident situation, or 'game' and we get all bent out of shape that it did not go our way? Or maybe it did go our way and we make so much more of it than what it is. What's the point? What really matters in life? Maybe that is something we should ponder more often.