Learning to Lose

Winning and Losing Part 1

We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. (2 Corinthians 4:8, NLT)

I coached a junior soccer team that lost its first seven games of the season. Now we could have grown discouraged about this and felt downhearted. But I think that losing all seven games did the boys more good than if they had won all seven games.

In our western society we concentrate on developing winners. We gear up our children for success and we never train them how to handle defeat. They don’t know how to handle losses. So when college life gets tough they drop out of school, when

marriages they take the escape route of divorce. They have never learned to hang in there and persevere through difficulties. More about this team tomorrow…