Yesterday was a difficult day for my youngest daughter Tiffany(14 years old). She is playing in partner week of a 13-week Challenge with Cindy--who is in the lead and poised to win the entire challenge. It is week 11 and the pressure has been on all week, and she has been up to the challenge. Yesterday, Saturday, the 2nd to last day of the partner week, I came though the door at 10:40am to find her fast asleep in her bed. When I roused her, she said "what time is it?" I told her 10:40 and she began to cry (In the challenge she has to be dressed and ready for the day by 10:30). Later that night when I picked her up from a friends house she realized she had eaten a cookie after 9pm (9pm is the cut off for eating in the challenge.)
I began to contemplate her options. She could lie and just put the point in. After all it wasn't for her it was for Cindy who had worked so hard this whole challenge. I could tell her that we would switch points for the day and she could input mine and I would take hers. What other answer could there be?
Then she said, "Mom I just have to enter zeros." I was so afraid, and so proud of her.
As I look at the stack of v-8 juices on her dresser, and contemplated her incredible sacrifices earlier this week for a point, I likened it to the experience of life. Sometimes, even with good intentions, we mess up. I heard in a talk today a quote I loved, "Our life is not an accumulation of the choices we make, but instead we are a product of those choices."
So I stand in awe of the incredible daughter I have, and the woman she is becoming because of her choices.
2 comments:
I am so proud of her!! Great choice!!!
Tiffany is amazing. She already knows her worth and the worth of her honesty. What a beautiful young daughter of Heavenly Father. Congratulations to Tiffany for a great challenge.
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