Monday, July 23, 2012

A Baseball Lesson


Week of July 22

 The coach is chiding his third baseman.

A grounder heads for third and the baseman, thoroughly rattled, misplays the ball. 

 "See I told you," the coach says to a visitor on the bench, "he didn't stay focused on the ball."

As the inning ends the third baseman storms off the field and slams his glove down.

 The catcher tells him, “cheer up, coach only rides those he thinks have potential. It is his way of trying to bring the best out of you.”  The third baseman lifts his head, his confidence restored.

God is like that coach. He is trying to bring out our best. He knows what is inside us. He put it there.

“For whom the Lord loves He corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.”
 (Proverbs 3:11)

Sal Retlas
Pawtucket R.I.

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