WIN SOME, LOSE SOME!

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Zachary's baseball team lost tonight..."It's all my fault," he exclaimed.

I must have missed something...Zack pitched and hit and ran and played as hard as I have ever seen him play-but the other kids caught and ran and played a little better than we did...and so they won-this time. We beat them last time...but somehow we tend to forget the victories when the failures are front and center.

As we walked home-I tried to console...carefully offering my sage words of wisdom..."The incredible highs and the incredible lows...the waves of life...up and down." Well-that really impressed him...cheered him right up. In fact he was speechless. He probably thought I was nuts...or just being me-trying to make universal sense, of a very simple and sad situation.

But just like baseball, we win some and we lose some. Sometimes we are at the top of our game and sometimes we fumble the ball..There are days when everything sails smoothly and others when nothing turns out right.

Because the rhythm of life continues to churn and evolve and carry us through the waves of wonder that turn to despair just in time to transform into the most glorious vision of hope that any one human being could ever imagine.

So it's important to know that we are never left to wallow in the mud if we are always willing to walk forward into the light-with our heads held high and our hearts held open to the unlimited depth and breath of the power of God who always gives us exactly what we need when we need it...and sometimes what we want-if we are willing to wait patiently for it.

I for one am patiently waiting, with hopeful expectation-that our baseball victory is one game away!

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