Currently at a soccer game (literally right now) . The game is tied, 1-1. I am realizing as I watch that only one team can leave victorious. But does that make the team that didn’t win, but played equally as well, a loser? In the arena of sports, yes. The problem comes when we apply the rules of a “game” to “real” life. Life is NOT a game. The same rules do not apply for life. In life we advance in different ways, we grow in different ways. What seems like a failure to one person may be a success to another. Don’t keep score, everyone plays life at a different speed. Those who keep scores need to remember the same will be done back to them.

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged” (Matthew 7:1, NIV)

So what am I thankful for today?  Lessons from a soccer game.