Greetings Dear Reader,
Yesterday I mentioned that a baseball game in which no
batter on one side reaches base for any reason is called a perfect game. This is a misnomer. Even though the perfection is identified as
no batters reaching base, true perfection would be if the pitcher only threw 81
pitches and every one of them was a strike.
This is almost statistically impossible.
I wrote a short story about this event. Even conceiving it in my imagination was
difficult. Still, the idea of a perfect,
or as it would be called, an immaculate game.
That would mean 9 consecutive immaculate
innings. To understand the rarity of
an immaculate inning, one needs to know that since record-keeping started in
baseball (1879) there have been almost 4 million innings of baseball. At this writing, there have been only 100 documented
immaculate innings. That is 0.0025%. That would be 1 inning out of every 9,826
played.
This is why statistically an immaculate game is almost
impossible and certainly improbable.
That level of perfection is not something for which one strives but it
is that same level of perfection a pitcher seeks with every pitch. It is
the seeking of perfection that makes great pitchers.
As for the rest of life, we need to understand that
perfection is an illusion. It is something
we cannot attain but it is worth seeking.
We need to hone things until they are the best we can deliver. This does not, however, mean that we will
attain perfection in this life. We may
be perfected but that never means that we are not far from perfect.
If we are going to be true followers of Christ, we must not
for a moment believe that we cannot improve.
We must believe that we can always become more loving, less offendable,
kinder, gentler, and meeker. We may have
days when we tick all the boxes but we also have days when we lose our pencil
altogether and ticking boxes is right out.
Like baseball, however, we always have the next inning to
try. I can do better today than I did yesterday. I can hone my skills and perfect my attitudes
so that they align with Christ and his love for us all. As we walk through each day, I can work
harder to become perfected in my following.
If we work to do this daily together, we can produce some immaculate
innings of our own Dear Reader. That
makes the journey sweeter and better for everyone.
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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