Greetings Dear Reader,
For those who do not know this antiquated term, it is a pitch
that his hit for a home run. It is
usually one wherein the pitch did not do as it was supposed to do. It is a curveball that hangs or a fastball that
is too low and outside. I think that
every pitcher remembers the first time he serves up a Gopher Ball. Mine was a Slider that did not.
I struck out the next two batters but the overreaching guilt
at having given up a homerun plagued me.
As I sat there whilst my team batted, it was lost on me that we rallied
and scored three runs. The coach saw my
face and knew what I was doing. He came
over to me and said, “Nothing you can do in the entirety of the world can take
back that pitch. Every pitcher
experiences this. What you have to
decide right now is if the pitches of the past or going to own or inform or
infect your future pitching.
I wish I could say that I shook it off and did great. I did not.
I was rattled and overthought every pitch for the next inning. I walked three and gave up to hits. I recovered by the next time I was due to
pitch but the lesson would not be as real had I not failed there. Too often, we allow the past to infect our
future instead of informing it. We let
that which we cannot ever change have sway over that which we are creating in
the moment.
When we stand there to pitch against time, we must realize
that every moment is a chance to get it right.
It must be informed by our past successes and failures. It must never be infected by them. I cannot change anything I have done that is
wrong. I can only resolve to not do it
again, love more deeply, and follow Christ more closely.
As I sit with my fingers hovering above the keyboard,
searching for the next words, I realize that I caress the nodes on the F and J
keys much like I used to the seems on a baseball. The comfort of the moment is that no one else
decides what I will choose. The call is mine
to make. I will either send out
something quality or leave it hanging.
Every day I start with these moments of choosing to let the past inform
but not infect my words, my day. You can
too Dear Reader. If we work together to
pitch against time in this way, the journey will be that much richer.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a homeowner.
He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”
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Thorn:
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