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Chapter 6 Faith: Your Biggest Strength

Chapter 6

Faith : Your biggest strength

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

Emmanuel Teney

 “We are so sorry for Piu” consoled one of the parents from the group.

“Ma'am I really do not understand what went into Piu.” reasoned Sabu sir, Piu’s coach “if Ria could come at third position Piu could have surely overtaken her”

“Piu skated so well with perfect confidence. She did not look back even once” said Rita another parent and Shruti’s great friend told grimacing “I thought she’d win but it was unfortunate”

Shruti simply smiled at their comments because deep in her hear she was very happy and proud of her little darling who stood at the start line, ran when the clap of wooden boards hitting each other was heard and finished the two laps of racing.

Losing and winning did not matter to her at all. Her smart baby finished her race with a smile on her face while her own heart beats were heard even to Govind who stood along with her; that was more then enough, a victory by Piu in her own sense

Shruti had hidden behind the pillar leaving Piu alone, her coach standing besides Piu as Shruti pulled Govind with her worried that Piu would run into them scared of facing the competition but Piu was amazing as she faced the challenge making her mom proud and her father wondering why she couldn't make it.

His reasoning being all the parents escorted their kids at the start line for their moral support while both of Piu’s parents were hiding behind the pillar chickening out. So they decided that the day after in another race both Shruti and Govind would stand at the start line for Piu’s support and even cheer her during the race.

Fortunately Piu’s performance improved in the next two races.

Though she did not secure any of the winning top three positions but she ended up finishing the race in fourth position which was a major improvement from being in seventh in the first race.

Though they left the town empty handed without any achievements but the biggest achievement was Piu finished her last race eve when she fell twice during the event.

The road was ueven and few pebbles were scattered o the surface.

While Piu was warming up before the race, she fell down, bruising her knee ad it started bleeding. Having no time as the girls under 4 were already called for for the starting line, coach Irfa was smart enough to apply a spray at the wound. Though it burnt initially but the bleeding stopped immediately.

While Shruti went agape and shocked seeing the thick lie ofblood on her daughters knee which had dried after the spray was applied but she felt miserable to send her for the race. She wanted to pull her out of the race and hug her nd secure her in the warmth of her arms but Govind had a different perspective. He believed Piu needs to taught not to give up in tougher circumstances. He was fine even if Piu secured last position but he wanted her to learn a lesson of never quitting and facing the challenges on a face front so after some cooing and doting by Govind who kept his steady strong hands on Piu’s shoulders pep talking about how brave and strog she is and this was the only task that she’d have to do in the day and rest of the day she had to herself, Piu stood ready to face the challenge on road race.

Shruti couldn’t hold the pride in her eyes when Piu finished fourth. She ran to Piu who had a frown face because she’d fallen again in the midrace at the turing which was away from visual eyes of Shruti.