Each night we gather together to discuss what we have learned that day and how others have impacted us. Tonight we heard how we encourage each other, no one is getting frustrated and everyone is “playing nice in the sandbox”. We are learning that there is no big part or no little part that is not important, everyone works together as a team, while someone is putting a roof on they still need someone to hold the ladder or hand them the nails. We’ve discovered that we could very easily become frustrated when we suddenly look around and find that we are doing a job all alone, but we realize that every job is important, God has placed each one of us in a very specific role in His family and we must fulfill that role, sometimes it is with others and sometimes it is by ourselves. When we sit down like this each night we are finding that this time is bringing us all closer together, we are not a group of 22 individuals but we are a family of 22 parts.
As we grow closer to each other there are tears of joy and tears of laughter that are expressed during our times of affirmation. During these times of affirmation it is awesome to see how each person affirms their teammates in such a way that can bring the room to tears at one moment and then to howls of laughter at another. What each of us is discovering is that it is not always the quarterback who throws the winning touchdown that makes the impression, sometimes it is just the water boy who has an even more significant impact. Sometimes in life we find ourselves wanting to compare ourselves to others, thinking that they are better than us just because of ____________ but what we are discovering about ourselves here in Biloxi is that it is not about comparisons but contributions.
When the 22 of us leave and head back home I think that we will find that we’ve got 21 new significant contributions that have been deposited into our lives that will never leave us.
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