A WEEK’S WORTH OF PHILOSOPHY FROM THE BLEACHER’S TO THE DUGOUT PART I
With a quick nod it begins. The ball rests and then the hand grips it in the prescribed manner. The body twists. The front leg rises and stretches forward. The arm and hand grasping the ball extends back as the body rocks back and then explodes forward. The throwing Arm whips forward and the red stitching spins feverishly on it’s 63 or so foot journey...the story has begun.
You see it’s the first pitch of a new game and maybe when it’s the first pitch of a new year there’s a bit more importance because. That pitch starts all the stories of a new season—a new hope.
Well seeking peace and joy is a lot like that. Every experience comes flying our way and while it fits somehow into the context of all our other experiences, it is a thing unto itself. We may have seen. Experiences like this and our responses may have seemed to increase or decrease our peace and joy, this is a separate event and. There is some uncertainty about the outcome. We. Are once again facing. The decision. About how to. Assign meaning to this experience unfolding. Do we watch it go by mostly ignored or do we take a swing, make the connnecgtions with what the universe is offering and wait for the outcome which then. Has a whole. Different set of variables? We are at the proverbial “fork in the road.”
So... I said all that. To say. This week is in honor of quotes about baseball. Many will be from Yogi Berra or could be attributed to him. Others will be from stage and screen. They will all have something to to with. Seeking peace and joy.
‘WHEN YOU GET TO A FORK IN THE ROAD—TAKE IT.”
Yogi Berra
What?” According to Yogi and I’m in agreement. Life is a series of decisions and fears about the outcomes of those decisions. Taking it simply means make a decision and live it out rather than getting stuck. Trust yourself to know when you are truly at the fork in the road not simply anticipating that you will reach a fork. seeking peace and joy and just living in general creates a stream of options, a few of them will require actions and these actions will create results that lead to yet other decisions. You can approach the whole. String of decisions and actions with an endless fear or can grab the fork and use it as a tool. You can be retain that. You had good reasons for making a choice. Could it turn out to be wrong—oh yes—we are all human so that could be. On the other hand the consequences for not choosing are disastrous. In most cases. Your “indecision” is in fact a choice to remain paralyzed in the confusing place where life has. Deposited you. You are staring at the fork and not. Going anywhere. Your supporters can’t support your choice and you can’t really apply any past lessons when assigning meaning to new experiences. If you are standing there at the fork the best you can. Do is endure the waves of change without growth.
So when you come to a fork in the road. Take it and believe in those who.will support you and believe in your ability to change with the new circumstances that will. Come with taking a new path.
By the way that pitch is a fast ball—high and inside —hit the. Dirt you are ahead in the count 1 ball no strikes and the game is on.
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