In Others’ Words: What’s Your Main Thing?

I’ve attended hundreds of volleyball games since my youngest daughter started playing back in fifth grade. And I’ve also taken thousands of photographs.Yes, of my daughter, but of her teammates, too. The setters. The outside hitters. The liberos. The defensive specialists. The middle blockers. The right sides.

One of my favorite photos? When the team huddles up. The girls do this before, during, and after games. And no matter how many photographs I have of teams standing with their arms around each other, I find myself taking just one more … again and again and again.

I wonder what they’re saying to each other when they’re circled up, sometimes with the coach, sometimes without. Maybe they’re encouraging each other. Maybe they’re regrouping when the game isn’t going well. Maybe they’re savoring a win … or facing a loss. 

But one thing is certain: they’re always coming back to the main thing: that they are a team. And win or lose, they compete together. 

We can get distracted by circumstances — the wins and the losses in our lives. We can begin to believe the lie that we are alone — and nothing chips away at a person’s sense of worth like stark silence of loneliness. We forget the main thing: the truth of who we are and Whose we are.

It’s important to know our “main thing” and it’s also important to be surrounded by others who believe in and support our main thing so that when we forget, they can remind us and hold us steady.

In Your Words: I know my main thing is my faith and knowing who God says I am. What’s you’re main thing — the truth that you stand on that holds you steady? And who helps you remember that main thing? 

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