Jul. 2, 2007 - It's not all about the baseball!
We are a baseball family. My dh played professionally, we watch baseball, minister to baseball players and we have some pretty good little players in our sons. I am surrounded by it! :O)
Benji plays on a 12yo travel team and it has been an amazing year. It has been a very successful year baseball-wise, but relationally it has been off the chart. The coaches have been great, the boys have had a blast and cheered and supported each other, the parents have been united and have thoroughly enjoyed the time we have spent with each other. It has been a very relational year!!
It's been a tough year, too, because many of the families have been touched by things that hurt them so they hurt the rest of us. A couple of grandparents have been hospitalized, one Grandpa died this last week, a 20 yo cousin was found floating face-down dead in a pool, our Caleb is facing his third surgery, one of the boy's mom is having a hip replacement in a week and one of the precious moms on the team is facing a tough fight against an aggressive form of cancer! So much pain! So many needs!
We had our end-of-the-year party last night and it was unlike any other I have ever attended. There was the usual food, swimming and plenty of laughter! There was lots of fun conversation and a cooler of ice did end up over a certain coach's body! What was different, you may ask? We PRAYED!
We had a very intense and lengthy time of intercessory prayer for those among us who were hurting. We laid hands on each other and anointed the sick with oil. We beseeched the Lord to intervene on behalf of those we have come to love! We had church!
There is a reason the Lord assembled these particular families together. There was a try-out process and each boy had to make the team. It seemed that they were picked because of their baseball skills, but I know it was more. The sovereign Lord, back in the fall of 2006, hand-picked each boy from each family...for such a time as this!! You know why I know this and I can say it with full confidence?
It's not all about the baseball!!
Comments
Jul. 2, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by KindredHeart
My heart is stirred as I consider how God orchestrated the coming together of this particular baseball team. I'm praying for all the needs represented, and asking that God will continue to use these trying circumstances to draw hearts to Him and bring glory to Himself!
So glad they see Jesus in you, friend!
Jul. 2, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by KindredHeart
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Jul. 2, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Debby/MI
What an amazing testimony - not of baseball, not even just of the families, but of God and how He has a plan that is so much bigger than we can see. Bless you, your family, and these other families for being willing to listen when He speaks to turn towards Him as a body of believers willing to hold each other up to Him.
Very, very cool...
