It's March Madness! And, we’re all rooting for our college basketball teams and brackets! We’ve all been following our teams, watching games and highlight reels of upsets, wins, victories, and celebrations.  It’s easy to just breeze on by and not pay much attention to the other team. The losers of the games.  One morning I had the TV on watching ESPN and the highlights of the winners, but then they switched to a reel of the teams that had upsets and losses.  They did press conferences with many, and there were tears. BIG tears from players, coaches, and one young coach even had his 10 year old boy next to him during the press conference and he just cried and cried. 

Those players and coaches have put in HOURS of work, practice, training, and time, and their season has come to an end.  Unfortunately, there has to be a winner and loser in these games.  There has to be one that walks away with the chance for one more game, and there has to be one that is done.

I was quickly reminded after watching this that this, my friends, is life.  This is part of mortality. The highs and the lows, and it’s very easy to forget. It’s very easy to love the highs when they are high, to think “we’ve made it” and that it will last forever. And then, when there’s a low, it’s easy to get frustrated, resistant, mad, and gain the perspective that this “low” will last forever, never end. But this is not the case! These “losses and low points, they are part of the plan.  They are part of life. And it doesn’t serve us to resist the lows.

If we want to make our lows a little less low, we need endurance.

How? What does endurance look like and mean for you and I?

Today's podcast is Six Tips to Enduring Well:

1. Believe that you are made for this!
2. Work
3. Learn
4. Be Humble
5. Pray and Express Gratitude
6. Write down your experiences.

Listen in to hear more!

Lessons on Endurance by Ty Hopkins