So much of life keeps score
From elections to sports
Competitive spirit
Churns in daily reports
Life’s clashing resistance
Much at too high a cost
All want to be winners
Loving brothers, now lost
Division without love
Life without sportsmanship
Forgetting our manners
People losing their grip
Imagine Super Bowl
Unresolved final score
Fans calling for justice
Final outcome called for
Pushing aside tension
Leaving muckraker’s trough
Muting all rhetoric
Turning life’s scoreboard off
Big Sky Buckeye 
Yes, everybody wants to be a winner. Perhaps turning to Christ instead of a scoreboard is the answer! 🙏🏻
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Susan, thanks for sharing this enlightening thought. Our unselfish Savior never kept score.
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wow you really echo my thoughts about competition and point scoring at every level … let’s turn that scoreboard off and become inclusive!
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Great follow-up Kate! May our echoes continue to resonate with others.
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we can only hope 🙂
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Unhealthy competitive spirit is so divisive; good poem
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I agree. I have seen both the positive and negative aspects of competitive spirit.
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Agreed!!!
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