Triple C News - Sept. 2
Hey, everyone!
What an awesome day!!
This is just one of those days when you wanta get out there and make a memory!
Maybe just do something unforgettable!!
“On this day…September 2, 2022…I did something I’ll never forget!!”
Lots of people have done amazing, unforgettable achievements on the “September 2s” of history…
If you just take sports, September 2 has been quite the date for amazing feats!
On Sept.2, 1957, Milwaukee Braves’s 1st baseman Frank Torre (btw, they were the Milwaukee Braves before they were the Atlanta ones) crossed home plate six times! For a new Major League record for one guy scoring in one game! The Braves beat the Cubs 23-10 that day! (If they were playing another game, that’d be three touchdowns and a safety against one touch down and a field goal!)
On 9/2/1969, Ralph Houk signed the largest contract in baseball history to manage the Yankees…
a whooping $69,000 per year!!
(The emoji where the yellow head has two super wide open eyes goes here)
Today, Mike Trout makes $35,541,667 per year!
(Two wide-eyed emojis go here)
For all you cricket fans out there…
on this 2nd day of September, in 1878…
“Surrey left-arm slow round-arm bowler Ted Barratt took 10-43 for the Players in Australia's 1st innings in a cricket tour match on his home ground at The Oval; all ten were caught or stumped…”
(I have no idea. But apparently it was awesome.)
But last night, Sept 1, 2022 we watched a rookie, Spencer Strider, with his amazing old-school moustache and endless 100 mph fastballs, set the Braves record for the most strike-outs in a nine inning game!!
Sixteen!!
We were all counting them as he rung ‘em up and then when he got the final “STREEEEEEERRIIIIICCCCK” to end the eighth, we all exploded!
And Spencer didn’t even know he’d done it!
“I lost track of the strike-outs after 5 and when I came out of the game and they were telling me something about John Smoltz or whatever, and I had no idea what they was talking about….I just kind of looked cross-eyed at them and they were like, ‘You know what just happened?’ It was neat!”
What if you did something unforgettable and ya didn’t even know ya did??
Probably happens more than you think!
You know the other day when someone told you about a painful thing they were passing through and you felt your heart break and your eyes water up just a little?
Well, Romans chapter twelve is one that tells you all the various ways you can express the fact that you have given yourself completely to God as an “offering” of love and devotion (12.1-2)
One of those ways is to “weep with those who weep” (12.15)
And you did.
You know last week how you were sooooo sleepy but you got out of that bed early to be with the One Who loves you best…
so that…
your heart could be full of Him and thoughts of Him…
so that…
you’d have all you need to have so you could be all you need to be…
so that…
some of the kids in your class would have someone in their “daily” who is full of the His love…
so that…
they might have a vision of the one they want to be someday when they grow up?
Well, that wasn’t nothing!
Romans 12.11 says that you should “never be lacking in zeal but keep your spiritual fervor…”
And you weren’t! And you did!
Remember last month when folks were saying all that stuff on instagram on that thread about that thing and you were just about to add your opinion to the pile just before it went ablaze with anger and hurtful words…
and you didn’t because you shouldn’t have. Because no one really should have?
(As Romans 12.18 says, “…as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone…”)
Remember that?
You don’t??
Well, here’s a verse for you! Ready?
Hebrews 6.10 says God will “never forget your work of faith and labor of love that you showed to His Name…”
September 2, 2022 is the perfect day to “set a record” by doing something beautiful that you might…
but He’ll never…
forget!
Now the news!