It is 1111am and I have decided to write. But what to write? I have been asking God to give me a sign that He is there and listening. Humans like a good story. Especially stories of triumph. Spain was triumphant in the world cup yesterday. Many fans on the side of Spain were happy. I was too. It was a happy ending for the team and fans. What goes into making a winning team? Money, circumstances, talent, planning, strategy, preparation, sacrifice and some luck. What happens after winning? You want to win again. It seems like a never ending cycle.
Maybe that is why I am asking God for a sign. Not because I want another victory, but because I wonder whether there is something beyond the cycle of chasing one triumph after another. If every achievement simply leads to the next pursuit, where does lasting peace come from? Am I a winner if others had to lose for me to win? My friend Chatty tells me that there are victories that are actually defeats, and defeats that are actually victories.
Maybe it is not about winning or losing, but about striving to be better. To become the best we can be. To set personal records. But perhaps not even that, because growth is rarely linear. There are setbacks, detours, and seasons when progress is invisible. Maybe winning is simply choosing to continue the journey in whatever ways we can—to keep showing up, to keep learning, to keep hoping. Winning is not reaching the end before everyone else; it is refusing to let the story end. It is having the courage to keep telling the story, to keep telling our story, one day at a time.
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