October 29 – “Being frank”

Well, ouch.  Tough loss at home for the Astros.  Nice home run for Springer, but when that’s one of only two hits the team gets all night, and someone named Keuchel or Verlander is not pitching, it’s going to be difficult to win.  But … perspective.  Now it’s a best two of three series.  How about winning one here and one there?  Sounds doable.

We went to Jachin’s baseball game yesterday morning.  My thoughts?  It was cold.  Really cold.  Things just get colder up in Texas than they do on the Island.  I think it was well into the 50’s.  Wind chill in the mid-40’s.  Just not at all baseball weather.  His team did fine, though.  They won something like 16 to 6.  Jachin walked every time he batted and scored every time as well.  He even slid into home head first.  And his slide stopped about an inch and a half from the plate.  He managed to scrap out the extra distance before the tag was applied, though.  Great game, but did I mention that it was cold?

Christina told us a story about the openness of a child.  Seems Noa was playing with the little friend of hers who was involved in the near-drowning several weeks ago.  The one where Jachin rescued her, and she was revived by CPR.  The interchange went something like this:

Noa: “Were your eyes open when you were drowning?”

Friend: “Mommy says I passed out and passing out is kind of like going to sleep so my eyes weren’t open.”

Children can often deal with traumatic events because they are willing to talk about it in simple and unpretentious terms.  Being frank.  There’s a lot of wisdom there.  Wonder when we start losing that …

1 John 4:19 says, “We love because he first loved us.”

Father, give us the wisdom of a child more often.  Amen.