Triple C News - July 1, 2022
Hey, everyone!
Hope you’re having an amazing day, filled with praise and thanks no matter what’s going on!
Even in spite of what’s going on, joy and thanks could be yours!
In fact, I could give you a few tips to make this dream…
(ie., a joyful day even tho’ the temp today tops out at 91, feeling like 103 with the humidity calculated!)…
come true!
First, just learn a few phrases is Spanish…
Wait! I think I just got confused!!
Learning a little Spanish helps another guy do another completely different thing!
There’s this guy I’ve read about who has the record for the most baseballs collected at Major League baseball stadiums.
He has over 11,000 baseballs at his house!
(Where do you put all those??)
He caught Mike Trout’s first home run ball…
and Didi Gregorius’s first home run…
and Alex Rodriquez’a 3000th hit (apparently a homer!)
But out of all his baseballs only about 70 are home run balls.
Most of the balls he’s taken home are from batting practice before the games, foul balls, or just yelling at an outfielder to throw him a ball…
He often shares tips on how to go home with a baseball from a Major League stadium…
“Don’t sit under the overhang like the ‘fake fans’ do…”
“Bring a glove and BOTH team ball caps so you can switch and put on the appropriate one when you ask for a ball…”
“Know the names of the outfielders on both teams, when you yell for the ball after a pop-up catch…”
“And learn a few phrases in Spanish (there it is!) like ‘Throw me the ball!’ (‘Tirame la pelota!’) if the outfielder is Latino and hasn't learned English yet…”
“But, most importantly…
The number one secret is this…
Go to the game with this thought in your mind: ‘I’m getting a baseball today!!’
Once you’ve made up your mind to get one, it’s amazing how often you do!”
So, that’s my secret for a joy-filled day!
Every morning, after you get your coffee poured and your journal and your Bible opened, no matter where you’re reading, look for reasons to be thankful, encouraged and joyful in what you’re reading!
And write them down!
Collect them!
And then thank God for them!
Zack Hample caught his first baseball at the old Shea Stadium in 1990. That was the start of his collection. That’s when I started collecting reasons to be thankful and joyful every morning! If Zack’s collected over 11,000 balls at stadiums in 32 years, I bet I got over 11,000 reasons for joy from the Bible in seven or eight years!
And if you write ‘em down and store them in a journal, they take up way less space than baseballs!
But the most important secret to having a joy-filled thankful day is when you have your coffee, your Scriptures, and yourself in place, you open the Book and say to yourself…
“I’m getting a baseball…uh, I mean…some encouragement today!”