Spirituality and Baseball
You may not know this about me, but I’m a big baseball fan. During the off season, Major League Baseball players like Ubaldo Jimenez, Troy Tulowitzki and Brad Hawpe don’t stop working out. In fact, they spend much of their off season in intense training. When the season begins, their primary focus is to play baseball as best as they can without getting hurt. They get into game mode very quickly.
Summer is kind of like the off season for baseball. It’s a time to spend recuperating from an intense year, but it’s also a time to really prepare ourselves for when the season begins. Once the school year and programs start back up, it’s important that we can go and work and not get hurt. If we spend the summer training spiritually for the fall, we’ll be ready for whatever curve balls, fast balls, or sliders are thrown our way. Remember, summer break is not Church break. Think about the words of 2 Timothy 4:2: “be prepared in season and out of season.” If we do this, we will proudly be able to boast that “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:7).
Let us spend this summer training for the school year by attending Mass regularly, by going to Reconciliation and, of course, with prayer. After all, when Saint Paul tells the Philippians "Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice," (Philippians 4:9), he's not just talking about doing this a certain time of year. He means always.
Summer is kind of like the off season for baseball. It’s a time to spend recuperating from an intense year, but it’s also a time to really prepare ourselves for when the season begins. Once the school year and programs start back up, it’s important that we can go and work and not get hurt. If we spend the summer training spiritually for the fall, we’ll be ready for whatever curve balls, fast balls, or sliders are thrown our way. Remember, summer break is not Church break. Think about the words of 2 Timothy 4:2: “be prepared in season and out of season.” If we do this, we will proudly be able to boast that “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:7).
Let us spend this summer training for the school year by attending Mass regularly, by going to Reconciliation and, of course, with prayer. After all, when Saint Paul tells the Philippians "Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice," (Philippians 4:9), he's not just talking about doing this a certain time of year. He means always.
posted by Richard Deanda at 12:54 PM
