Letting others learn from their trials
I was recently reminded by an experience my daughter has been going through the importance of letting others go through their trials. When she was in 7th grade she tried out for the basketball team. She found out she wasn't good enough to be on the A team and was put on the B team as a floater, this meant she got to play a little on both teams. She struggled with feelings that she really wasn't a part of either team, but she did not quit and worked hard. Her skills improved and her fellow teammates on both teams noticed. She learned a lot from this experience. She learned not to give up, to work hard and the rewards would come. Now she could have quit and had the attitude that it just wasn't fair, she could have blamed the coach and said they shouldn't have made her feel that way but she didn't. On the flip side there's another girl who wanted to be popular, who wanted to be in school leadership, who wanted all the things another girl had worked hard for, who h