Episode 210: Your Role Can Change Without Your Value Changing | My ACL Tear, Zeke’s Season-Ending Wrist Injury & What Resilience Really Looks Like | Leadership, Identity & Moving Forward

**Within a few hours, I learned I had a torn ACL… and one of the most important players on our baseball team learned his season was over.** My MRI confirmed a **partial ACL tear**, with bruising on both my femur and tibia. The plan now is four weeks of physical therapy, a more supportive brace, and then another evaluation to determine what comes next. That means no tennis. No jarring exercise. And the marathon I had been thinking about training for? That’s on hold. I was frustrated, but I had started accepting what the next few weeks were going to look like. Then I got another update. Zeke, number **12**, one of the most valuable players on our team, injured his wrist sliding into home Tuesday night. He’s now out for about eight weeks. Our season has two weeks left. So just like that, his season is over. And yes, we’ll miss his arm. We’ll miss his power at the plate. I was planning to start him in our next game. But that’s not what makes Zeke so valuable. He encourages his teammates. He pulls for other kids to get chances. He wants them to succeed. He’s a leader. He’s the kind of teammate every coach wants. And that’s what this episode is really about. **An injury can change your role without changing your value.** That’s true for Zeke. It’s true for me. And it may be true for you too. Sometimes life changes what you can do. An injury. A job loss. A family change. Age. A setback. Something you never saw coming. And suddenly, you’re not playing the role you expected. That doesn’t mean you’ve lost your place. It doesn’t mean you’ve lost your purpose. It doesn’t mean you’ve lost your value. Romans 5 reminds us that suffering produces perseverance, and perseverance produces character. Resilience is not pretending nothing happened. Resilience is being honest about what changed and deciding who you’re going to be inside the new reality. So if your role has changed lately, remember this: **The plan may change.** **Your role may change.** **But your value does not.** And resilience means finding a way to keep moving forward anyway. 🎙️ *Summit After the Storm Podcast* Season 6: **Lessons in Real Time** 📖 *Summit After the Storm* releases November 10 🌐 **SummitAfterStorm.com** #SummitAfterTheStorm #LessonsInRealTime #Resilience #ACLRecovery #YouthBaseball #Leadership #Identity #KeepGoing #Faith #LifeLessons #InjuryRecovery #Character #Perseverance #Teamwork #KeepClimbing