Being part of the FREEDOM TOUR team is a blessing.
Membership offers a variety of benefits, but there’s one thing I can’t be as part of this team.
I can’t be a victim.
I have this nasty tendency to feel sorry for myself. Given the choice, I lean toward blaming circumstances or other people when things don’t go exactly as I want. It’s a negative, self-defeating internal habit, one I battle constantly.
If you want a remedy for the play-the-victim habit, hang around our team.
It’s tough to play victim when I’m surrounded by folks who signed up to train, raise funds, and share a story to support a group of kids they’ll never meet. Our riders are on their bikes in all kinds of weather. Our support team will prepare for about a million logistical details. We’ll form a community that’s difficult to describe, all based on shared sacrifice for a cause bigger than any of us.
In the midst of people showing that kind of sacrificial love, it’s hard to feel sorry for myself. They constantly remind me, through their actions, that it’s not about me.
It’s what community is all about. Among this team I learn to be a better version of myself, something a little closer to what God has in mind. Often it feels like one-step-forward-two-steps-back, but that’s the other great thing about this team. There’s a lot of grace for the times I mess up.
We weren’t meant to do life as Lone Rangers. I’m grateful for the communities that surround me.
I hope you are as well.
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Rich…A BIG THANKS to you and Becky. Without you both none of us would have become a part of this community that your motivation has formed. All of us and the kids in India owe you a big thanks for bringing us together!!! Keep up the fabulous work! We all encourage each other and that is what keeps us motivated even though the weather has not been cooperating much!