playing ball
My husband and 11 year old son were outside in front of the house playing catch on Friday afternoon getting ready for baseball season. The little girl across the street looked on, and my 11 year old has kind of taken a fancy to her. He prodded his dad to throw him a dive ball, my husband replied, “just enjoy playing catch with me son, we will have time for that later”. But my son saw the little girl looking on, and pleaded with his dad to just throw him one dive ball. So my husband threw a dive ball, and my son “Keith” dove for the ball, but he could not help himself and glanced over at the little girl to see if she was watching, he didn’t have his eyes of the ball even a fraction of a second, but it was long enough to lose focus, and sure enough he missed the ball, and it went straight in the drainage hole in the curb and he lost the ball completely. A bit embarrassed, he told the little girl that they were playing with a tennis ball, and he would go get a real baseball and that would work better. So he got another ball and prodded his dad again to throw him another dive ball. My husband said “Keith, just enjoy playing catch with me son” but Keith saw the little girl still looking on and he pleaded with his dad again to throw him another dive ball. So my husband again threw him a dive ball, and sure enough, Keith could not help himself but to look to see if the little girl was watching, only taking his eyes off the ball for not even a fraction of a second, but it was still long enough to lose focus, and again he missed the ball, and again it went straight down the drainage hole. So he lost 2 balls in not even 15 minutes, and didn’t really enjoy just playing regular old catch with his dad. However he did get an invitation to pizza at the little girl’s house for dinner.
My husband and I laughed about it later that evening, and I started thinking that I am sometimes guilty of the same. I am on this spiritual path to god, and sometimes I worry so much about what other people think that I lose focus on god and I tend to miss the ball, or I worry so that others don’t see things like I do that I fail to enjoy the beauty in just throwing the ball back and forth. I need to keep reminding myself, that it does not matter what others think, because if I let other opinions interfere with my heart, I lose focus and I tend to miss the balls sent to me. We are each on our own spiritual path and what is right for someone else may not be right for me, and visa versa what is right for me may not be right for someone else. I recently started losing faith that I was even on the right track and friend gave me some advice that I hold so very precious to my heart.
god takes care of sincere seekers, where u dont seek power or control but only love and peace and service to mankind, god shows way and will never let u slide down
My son ran out of baseballs and therefore could not continue. But god will never run out of baseballs and will keep throwing them over and over until I catch one. I just need to keep myself focused and enjoy just playing catch.
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