Everyday we make decisions, some that are made will change the course of our lives forever, most will not. What shirt to put on, what to have for breakfast, making your bed in the morning, those decisions might not have a long term impact on our life. Marriages, children, moving to a different place those decisions do have an impact on our life.
Today I
would like to write about how a decision from a friend that has had no impact
on her life but, changed mine forever, and boy am I happy she made that phone
call that day.
Two summers
ago I was having a very hard time with depression. Havasu is hard on people in the summer because
you can only take 120 degree weather for so long. I am positive that is it is the same thing
that happens to people in Alaska when they do not see the sun for months on end
in the winter time. I had locked myself
in my house from the outside world and spent many hours in bed crying. Terribly distraught not knowing what would
come next. There were too many big
decisions that had to be made that I no longer wanted to make. Too many decisions that were mine solely to
make, and if you know me I am not one to come to big decisions lightly, I was
done making pro and con charts.
I got a
phone call from Patty Bagshaw, who had no idea that she was an answer to many
prayers. Not only given by myself but,
my children, parents, siblings, and other friends. You see Heavenly Father truly loves His
children and knows what they need. He
knew that an invitation to baseball was something I was not going to say no
to. With that phone call and a few
pestering ones after that my life took a different course.
So how are
baseball and prayers related? Easy,
going to those games in Kingman gave me something to look forward to other than
making long term impacting decisions on my life. It also got me out of the house and feeling
the sun on my face. Baseball brought a
much needed smile to my face. Lastly, it
was an answer to many prayers.
When this
time of year happens I get excited, ecstatic, joyful, and thankful for a season
when I know I can look on my phone and find a game going on. Yes, I don’t have cable so my 2 MLB apps come
in very handy. Baseball is not
everything in my life, but it is a place where I feel safe. I love watching the game rather it is the big
boys playing or my students, baseball brings a smile to my face. My favorite quote about baseball is “In
baseball as in life, all the important things happen at home.”
I can never
thank Patty enough for making that initial phone call. She truly was an answer to prayers. You never know when you have a feeling to
call someone, text them, write a little note on Facebook, that that is
something that person needs. Those might
be an answer to someone’s prayers.
With that said, all I can say is “Play ball!”
