Life lesson's through football

So my oldest Caden has been playing flag football. He was invited to play on a competitive team that has been playing together for years.

The coach is pretty intense but Caden loves it. It's something some kids can handle and some, like my Karson, would not be able to handle.

The other night we went to get him from practice and he came to the car looking upset. We asked him what happened and he told us that his team was not listening and he was the ONLY one who was so coach made them ALL do bear crawls across the field and back. He was pretty upset and said it made his legs weak and he felt like he couldn't walk. Now remember we do live in Arizona so even at 7pm it's still in the 90°. There was no doubt that his legs were shaky. Then he said to us it was hard! One of the great things about Clay of he is really good at being able to see life lesson's to teach our kids through their experiences.

Clay looked at him and said it's good to do hard things. Caden looked at us and said not for me. Clay then explained how in life we will have to do hard things and sometimes we are not the one who causes it but most of the time it's our choices that lead us to hard things. Clay then said football is a team sport and even if he had the best game ever without the rest of his team they can't win. It's like in life we should do and be the best we can but it will never be good enough without our teammate the Savior.

Then we asked him if he did it. He said yes! So I told him he will probably do it again and it will still be hard but every time he does it will get easier because he is getting stronger.

We will always have trials but by going through them we can come out stronger. Each time we do we know that we can get through it because we have before, the trials might not get easier but we get stronger!

It was a good conversation and teaching moment for us and a great reminder to me!! Here is one of life's lessons through football that I learned on my journey from 3 to 4!!!