Records

I do not say this to boast, really. My daughter was part of a swimming relay team that holds the school record at her old high school. Her name, along with three others is on the record board over the swimming pool.

I have never seen the board. The record was posted in her senior year and by the time they got it up on the board she had graduated. I was curious to take a look though, "just to see". Fast forward to tonight. Our youngest daughter is now a freshman at the same school. I was late picking her up and thought I would go inside to look for her. I normally wait in the car and she comes out, but I thought she might have wandered off as other activities were happening at the school.

I thought she might have wandered into the gym, Nope. The swimming pool to watch others practice? I walked in and looked for her. Not there. As I turned around and walked back through the hall I found her and we left. On the way home I realized, I had walked in the swimming pool area and never looked at the record board. After all this time (three years), maybe I should have been upset. I did want to see it (father's pride?) but I wasn't upset.

The record will be there until a faster team comes along. It does matter that she participated and I know she did her best. People will come after us. The church will be "turned over" to the next generation. Someone years from now may want to look and see what happened during our part of the race. Or maybe not. It really just matters that we participated and did our best. Actually I may pray that a better team comes along and our "records" are broken. Blessings