Keep Your Head In the Game

Well my son’s high school football team suffered their first loss of the season a few weekends ago. It was a huge loss: 7-35. Our team had been undefeated and had experienced huge wins in the previous weeks so this loss was so unexpected and it hurt. Did I mention that the opposing team was our down the street rival? Yeah, this loss hurt really badly.

As my son and I processed the game, I mentioned that our team seemed to not mentally to be in the game after a blocked punt by the opposing team which led to a touchdown in the first half of the game. My son stated that he thought it was the very next play when the other team’s onside kick definitely worked in their own favor. They scored another touchdown. That’s right, 14 unanswered points in a matter of minutes. Our team just never seemed to recover after those back-to-back plays.

You know sometimes life can hand us some devastating blows that may come a little at a time or like in the game mentioned above, just back to back to back. It can be hard to keep our balance and most definitely our focus can get skewed after we have suffered a series of blows. But I have to encourage you to keep your head in the game. There is still a win possible if we can just stay focused on the end result—a successful season.

Now ultimately, we want to win every game in life but there will be times when will lose by our own mistakes or by the opposing team just simply out playing us. Regardless of how we lose, let’s learn our lessons and keep our head in the game. The season is not over yet. We’ve got some more wins to count!