Monday; June 29

As a baseball fan, I am curious to see how the 2020 season plays out.  As of the writing of these thoughts, it appears that the season will consist of 60 games – which figures out to just under 40% of a normal season.  On the one hand, I am somewhat disappointed that we haven’t had baseball for the past two months, on the other hand I am intrigued by the shortened season.  Typically, at the beginning of each baseball season, hope springs eternal with the cry, “This could be our year!”.  Well, in all honesty, that could be true of a lot of teams that couldn’t get into the playoffs in a 162 game season.  All they have to do is weave together a little magic and who knows what will happen.  I have followed a lot of teams who were in contention at the 60-game mark who swooned miserably after the halfway mark.  Who knows – in spite of all the disappointment surrounding baseball this year, it could end up being exciting for a lot of people.  No, I haven’t gone out and bought my MLB.tv subscription yet, but I just might be tempted to do it this year because anything could happen.
As I thought about the excitement of a condensed baseball season, it got me to thinking about what would happen if we put everything we had into our short lives?  Most times, when people get to the end of their lives, they have a tendency to echo the Old Testament character, Jacob’s, assessment of life, “The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.” (Genesis 47:9); however, what if we decided right here, right now to fill our condensed lives with excitement?  How much fuller could our journey be if we lived life with a belief that anything could happen?
We may not get the chance to determine how many years we get to live, but we do get to choose how we live the years we have.
          Think About It!

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