School has been out since June 9th, and let me tell you it's been a great summer so far. I have been able to hang with great friends and train with my best friends, my two Golden Retrievers, Tucker Jack and Allie Mae. Last week I had a private lesson with my new mentor/instructor. It was so, so good. She said something that has stuck with me since then.. We were talking about running an agility course during a trial and how sometimes you just flub it. You've prepared yourself and your dog, but you just blank out or mishandle the situation. She said that this would happen every now and then. She looked me in the eye. Pointing her finger she said, "But whatever you do Jenn, don't loose the lesson." Wow!!! What great advice! Don't loose the lesson. Like an agility trial, life can be unpredictable. Even when you have prepared and done everything right you can still mishandle a jump or an obstacle on a course. It is true that my life's "course" hasn't gone the way that I would have wished it to go. But through this I have learned many lessons that would have been impossible to learn without such tribulation. I know, as I have written before, that I have been comforted when I needed it the most. Like footprints in the sand I can look back and see the times that I was carried.
I'm only 37 years old, and I have many more years left on this planet... I hope. I'm sure there will be many more times when the trial that I face will seem too great for me to handle. My greatest wish is to remember the phrase... "Don't loose the lesson." I pray that looking at tribulation through the lens of learning will give me a deeper understanding, resilience, and endurance. This is my prayer!
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