On the BALL?

I was watching a girls basketball game this weekend and, there was this little girl who was always fighting for the ball under the basket. I remembered, that was ME!!!


In junior high, I wasn't the best basketball player but I was good at playing defense. My coaches would yell, "Betsy cover #21"
& I would. Somehow I always seemed to get the rebound and have possession of the ball!

Years later when I play, I would be more concerned with How the opposite team must feel if I took the ball from them. Followed by my just giving the ball away bc they must need it more than I do...

My concentration has gone completely off of my wants or simply playing the game to being Overly concerned about how Everyone else around me feels.

Sounds nice.

But...

It's consuming.
It's a full-time job bc there is always someone who Didn't Get the BALL.

I find myself chasing after people giving them the balls they dropped bc I think this is the "right" thing to do.

But...

It can't be.

Bc..

It Costs me.

The time I spend worrying about how everyone else is feeling takes away from my time enJOYing the game.

I believe we were put on this earth to experience JOY.

How could I be experiencing my own JOY when it's always predicated on other people being in JOY?

In other words, I won't allow myself to be happy unless all those around me are happy First. THEN, I can be happy.

Yikes!

Today, You are Allowed to experience JOY :)))

Even if...

ESPECIALLY if...

those around you are not!

enJOY & try to be injoy :)

Let's ALL have a BALL!
;)

Xoxo