Revalue…
Bringing clarity to an overwhelmed mind…
One of the underestimated things about parenting is that your child will teach you lesson after lesson. As they get older the lessons, they teach you get deeper and become even more meaningful. Then, they hit the age of I want to play a sport or do something meaningful or has some great value to them, and the lessons just keep coming. Maybe not everyone’s parenting is going like this but as for me this is how it’s been as of lately, and I am finally starting to enjoy it.
My daughter loves basketball, which I am fine with. I went the opposite route and wrestled but I am enjoying my daughter participating in a sport I don’t really know. I know the basics of basketball up to church ball league, but past that I have no knowledge. If I am being honest, it’s amazing as a dad to just watch my daughter play basketball and just be a fan. Instead of being on the edge of my seat analyzing every technical shot, now I sit back and relax (up to a certain point though, it’s still competition) and really see what this game is really about. But did I ever get taught a lesson by my daughters’ basketball team.
When basketball players are on the court there is a form of structure and order to how they are positioned. Everyone is on the court in their spot ready for the ball to be passed into play. It might look like a bunch of people just bunched up, but once someone yells a command everyone scatters like ants to their position and holds strong. Not wavering as bodies are being pushed around, but still holding their position strong. But from time-to-time things will get all out of whack and no matter if you watch basketball or not anyone can tell when something is wrong, body language. When everyone is out of whack no head signal or whistle really does the trick to get everyone back in their right position. Until, I heard one of the point guards on my daughters’ team yell, Reset. Once that happened everyone automatically knew where they had to get to on the floor because Reset was just yelled.
That moment has stuck with me as I experienced how fast and quick a team went from chaos to structure and order within seconds. The team already had in place a specific play to set up when disaster hits, when everyone is not in their spot. They already had a play in place to get everyone back on the same mindset, back on one accord. Once a little disruption was caused on the court and the coaches started yelling to get players back in their right spot, all we hear is Reset. Just like that the whole team is able to get back into their right position. Allowing the team to revalue their play and either move forward with the same play or adjust to another play, but now they are all doing it with one mind, one accord.
There are moments in life when you know things are out of whack and something needs to be done about it. There are moments in life when you know things are out of whack in your personal life or your friends or family’s life. There are moments in life when we need to yell Reset and revalue the play at hand. We have to be comfortable recognizing that we need to not take a step forward or take a step back in those moment but stand still and revalue what is going on in the present moment.
