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Well, I Could Try

 


  In the 2018 Winter Olympics, Ester Ledecká won the gold medal in the Super G alpine skiing. 

  Which was odd because she was a snowboarder.

  She had done some alpine skiing but was ranked 49th in the event. She had to borrow some skis from a teammate to even compete.  After she won, she refused to take off her goggles since she had skipped wearing makeup as she had not expected to win the event.


  How does that happen?

  It turns out her inexperience was her advantage. The rest of the field ran the race the exact same way, but she ended up taking an atypical route that turned out to be slightly faster than what the experts thought was ideal. A new perspective was all it took for her to achieve greatness.

  Often in church work, I hear people exclaim; I couldn’t do ‘this or that.’ That is just not my thing! My talent lies elsewhere.  While that may be true, it might also be that your limits are not because you can’t, but because you have not tried. We know we can do it like “so and so,” but who says we have to? We might do it differently, but it may be just as good or even better than everyone else.

 Peter tells us that the Father judges each one’s work impartially (1st Peter 1:17). You don’t need to worry about how they are doing it, only if you are doing all that you can. 


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