Is it the end of the road
When all the challenges are complete?
Is this the final opportunity
That our team will ever meet?
When you embark on this journey
You know not where the road will take you
Seven adolescent teenagers, two managers,
And The Solar Stage challenge to do.
The team finishes sixteenth
Proud of their effort and success in Tennessee
Yet the team achieved so much more
And the end result seems a small piece of the story
Friendships carved and objectives met
Memories that will survive for all the day
Challenges solved that were more than DI
An opportunity to gather and pray.
A journey as a group that led us
Through a portion of time as a team
A spiritual journey forged together
Accomplishment of a dream.
From broken boxes to duct taped parts
Open conversations and open hearts
Vibrant, sassy, boisterous and brainy
Dangerous, goofy and sometimes crazy.
Time constraints and busy lives
Missed practices, missed tournaments too
Yet a team that was even better than the sum of its parts
A team that set lofty goals and somehow knew
Knew that their futures were guided by God
Their success defined by the practices throughout
A team that taught the adults around them
And gave them something to pray for and about
Is it the end of the road
When all the challenges are complete?
I know that in the future, in person or in thoughts and prayers
There will be many more times that this team will meet.
Even duct tape weakens and glue dissolves
Memories are not held together through an attempt at rhyme
But friendships last and accomplishments survive
We've created a way to Stop TIME.
