"Are you a winner or a loser?"

My wife sat on our bed, playing solitaire. Our then-elementary-school-aged daughter walked in and watched her mom for a few minutes. Then she said, “I want to play cards. Will you teach me how?”

My wife said, “Well, honey, it’s kind of a complicated game.”

And our daughter said, “I’ll watch real closely.”

“Well,” my wife said, “I may not be the best one to teach you. I lose a lot.”

And our daughter says, “How can you lose to yourself?”

Not a bad question, is it? How can you lose to yourself?

Now you know how to play solitaire and understand what my wife said. But take our daughter’s question to life. How can you lose to yourself?

Really you can’t, can you? If you’re having fun, and you’re not competing against someone else to see who’s the winner, you can be the winner regardless of the outcome of the game of life. Just for playing you get lots of prizes, right?

Name your prizes—good health, loving friends, adoring family and so on today. God gives you those prizes as you listen to life and make a life!