My sons continually crack me up. The other day I was told of something Levi said while at church. He was talking about the things he likes, and anytime what he likes comes up you can bet he'll talk about football. For goodness sake, he knew the names of all the NFL teams by the time he was three! Anyway, he was talking about how much he likes to play it, how he likes to play catch with me (poppa) and how we'll often play together in our backyard. "But," he lamented, "poppa always loses. I think I'm going to let him win sometime."
Precious. My five year old is sensitive enough to care that I don't ever seem to get to win, to score a touchdown, to evade a tackle. So he's going to let me win. He's going to lose on purpose. This should be interesting.
Because like most fathers, I've been losing on purpose for some time now. I've been slowing down, making exaggerated dives that end up tackling only air, and dramatically demonstrating my frustration that my little blue-eyed all-star has gotten the better of me once again. What's going to happen when each of us tries to be the loser?
It reminds me of a portion of a verse from one of my favorite passages of Scripture. In Romans 12, Saint Paul gives tremendous advice to the church on how to put love into action. Read verses 9 through 21 and put them into practice... I dare you! If more of us did, the world would never be the same. But in that section, as part of verse 10, we read, "...outdo one another in showing honor."
I bet that looks something like a father and son each trying to lose the game. I think it looks like mothers and daughters trying to demonstrate greater appreciation for the other. I think it looks like bosses and employees working to be the most grateful for the opportunities of the day. I think it looks like men and women, boys and girls, black and white, Christians and non-Christians, striving to live the Christ-like example of love that knows no bounds and keeps no record of wrongs.
How can we outdo one another in showing honor? Let's give ourselves away to the world, and do our best to be the biggest loser.
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Thank you for the thoughts. Tough to practice. Some days I do better than others.
Leina actually did this to me the other day. It took me a minute to catch on...I was waiting for her to play the last card and she was waiting for me. Then I was trying to give her a clue and she was telling me where I could put mine. Beautiful!
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