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Grace all season
“You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out it was the other way around all the time” ~ Jim Bouton, pitcher “What you have to remember is that baseball isn’t a week or a month but a season – and a season is a long time.” ~ Chuck Tanner Learning how to recognize God’s Grace in our daily life takes time and practice. “Looking back” is one way…
Baseball as a road to God.
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/424489/march-07-2013/john-sexton When does wondering about “what has been” give us freedom to live into “what might be”? What is a time that you made a choice to wonder about things that you know…and things that you don’t know?
Communion and Baseball
“So, while the gospels of Matthew and Mark were giving nourishment to my soul, the feats of Mays and McCovey were taking hold of my heart. It was not easy to know what held more meaning for me as a youth: my first Communion or my first major league baseball game. Both were spiritual experiences. Communion made me eligible to receive the major league sacrament of the Catholic Church, ingesting the bread transformed into the body of Christ just as…
Staying Power
It is often impossible to understand the staying power of baseball. “There is something transformational about connecting with the game at the right time in your life — almost always in youth — when you learn to fully embrace its character and every potential: the patience and endurance required, the long season, the triumph, the forgiveness. When you fall in love with this game, there is no doubt. Even as childhood fades, we still believe in what the game can impart.…