Here's a good story showing us why we should sometimes (if not all of the time) venture beyond our campus and get out into the community.
Over the last few years, our family has been “on mission” with the baseball team in our community. We have had an amazing journey building relationships with people in our county and doing life together with them.
Last weekend, one of the coaches asked my husband to pray before their first game. Then, as I drove up to the field, I saw my husband kneeling at the 3rd base line with 12 little boys, hats off, kneeling beside my husband…praying. The coaches were standing behind them with their hats off as well. It was an amazing sight!
Earlier in the day, my husband, took notice that one of our coaches was having some back trouble during the game. My husband went up to him and asked if he could pray for his back. The coach said, “Sure.”
At the last inning of the game, the coach had asked us to pray, because we were losing. Well, the game ended and we lost.
As I was driving away, the coach waved me down so I would stop the car. I rolled down my window and he asked where my husband was. I said, “He is already heading home.” The coach said excitedly, “You have to tell him this, my back did not hurt the entire game. I don’t know what happened, but that is the first game I pitched that my back didn’t hurt.” He said, “Your prayer didn’t work because we lost the game (in a teasing way).”
I said, “Maybe God wanted you to have the win, instead of the team.” He said, “Maybe so.”
-Michelle
