We have such a talented student body at Mueller College, and it is fantastic to see so many students involved in the many extracurricular opportunities offered across the school.
This weekend, the Mueller Touch Academy students and coaches head away for their annual Touch Camp. At camp, students will develop their skills, strengthen relationships, and prepare for the upcoming competitions. They will also be reminded of the two defining values of the Touch Academy: playing hard and playing humble.
Most students understand the importance of playing hard. It means persevering when you are tired and continuing to give your best even when things are difficult. Humility, however, can be harder for students to understand. The students learn that humility means using your gifts for the good of the team, receiving feedback, and recognising that success comes as a team.
While humility is important on the touch field, it is also essential for a good life. However, while we know that humility is important, we can be reluctant to pursue it as it seems costly. Why pursue a virtue that asks me to put myself second? And yet, there is a great joy and freedom that comes with true humility. When we realise that we are not in control of our own story, but that God in His infinite wisdom, grace, love and truth leads us through life, humility becomes not a burden, but a comfort.
We have the greatest example of humility in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. In Philippians 2, the apostle Paul writes:
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Just as the Mueller touch students and coaches will be doing this weekend, may we all strive to adopt the same mindset as Christ Jesus and humble ourselves to serve and love others.
Brayden Hargrave
