tender mercy...

This is just a quick tender mercy moment that I wanted to share. All summer long the kids did swim team and it was alot of fun. Grace in particular did very well and was the best in her age group, usually getting first in her age group at whatever she swam. We did do a few invitational meets where they give each swimmer points for what they place in each of their events they swim. Well we never swim on the Sabbath, so at each meet she never ranked high point because of receiving zeros for all the sunday events. The very last meet was a Friday, Saturday, Sunday meet and the NVAL championships with literally hundreds of kids there and several in each event. We decided to go because usually butterfly races on Sunday, but this meet it was on Saturday and that is Graces best event. Well right off as she started to swim she forgot what she was doing and did a free style stroke before starting her butterfly. An automatic DQ. I was so disappointed but later we found out the judge had been DQing everyone so they threw out all her DQ slips including Graces. She won the event. She didn't get high point because of our not swimming on Sunday but she had accumulated enough points in 2 days to get 4th high point and receive a trophy. Practically impossible for not swimming all days of the meet. Had she been DQed for he butterfly she would not have even had a chance to get high point. Just a tender mercy from heavenly Father for our sweet Grace. (this was in the draft box from 2008)