We are going to the State Championship game!!
4 11 2006The Vikings won their second playoff game tonight!!! WOW! What a game it was. Final score 8-6! So they are off next weekend to the other side of the state to play in the State Championship! Two years ago they won this game against the same team they will be up against on Saturday. That marked the first state championship ever for this school. Last year they made it to the championship game and lost on a terribly cold and snowy day.
It is so fun to see the boys playing and loving it. And tonight, I got an added bonus. After the game, everyone goes out onto the field (and prays an Our Father together if you can believe it) and then congratulations abound. I had not had the opportunity to introduce myself to the new head coach, who was hired just before school started, but did so tonight after the game. My reward….he told me that Slim and Bubba were the nicest two boys he had ever met!! He said that if he had a whole team of boys like them, he would be one happy coach and would be able to sleep soundly every night!!
Music to a mother’s ears! Isn’t that what we are about? Raising children who will make a difference? I later shared this with the boys and told them they should be proud of themselves because even if their peers don’t appreciate them, there are people who are noticing and whose lives they are affecting.
Lord, thank you for small consolations that give us the strength to keep on keeping on. 
