06/29/2022
Just wow! A must read !❤️🤍
😢SHOOWEEE……this will be an emotional Coach post……..
One of our parents passed this photo along to me. We had just lost our only game in Chattanooga to a hard-playing team. It was a game that we coulda/woulda/shoulda won, but we didn’t. They earned it.
Then — both teams paused for a moment after shaking hands to share the Lord’s Prayer together……and I realized💡 it’s just another softball game. 🤦🏻♂️
**We finished in the TOP 8 out of 150+ teams in our grouping, so, I was still super-happy for our ladies!!
We were 8-1 overall during our 4 days in Tennessee while playing talented teams from 6 different states, which was an awesome experience!
WHAT GOT ME — we were standing around waiting to play, when another team of players from Florida came walking by who had just lost.
There was a teenage girl (15/16 years old) that was with this team who was riding a motorized wheel chair loaded down with softball equipment.…..and she had the biggest smile on her face while joking with a player who was walking beside her.
By the way — this young lady was also in FULL UNIFORM.….and proceeded down to join in with their team meeting……with HER teammates!!
I just stopped and watched her for a little while……and I LOST IT!! I walked away and just spent a few minutes alone in HIS presence. ☝️🙏
I spoke with a couple of parents from this team a short while later……I just had to know her story.
This young lady has a form of Muscular Dystrophy, and has never walked a single step.
BUT — she is at every practice, and every game…..usually the first one there and last one to leave. She goes to every tournament, and always warms up with the team. She helps carry the equipment and helps clean up team trash also…….EVERY SINGLE TIME!!
She even attends prospect camps with College Coaches!!
What a profound testament of unconditional love, faithfulness, and devotion……and what about her parents??? WOW!! I want to meet them too!!
I couldn’t even pull myself together to go talk to this young lady and let her know how awesome I thought her commitment level was.
What if…..just what if — that young lady had ONE AT-BAT?? One pitch? One play? One chance?
ONE STEP??
So many of us worry & complain about what we don’t get or what we don’t have……instead of just making the most of what we do.
I hope to cross paths with that young lady again at a ball field……and I will meet her, and ask for a picture with her since I am now one of her biggest fans!! 😉
Just Live, laugh, & love - and make the most of the little things — every, single, day.
There are so many everyday heroes roaming around on this earth if we just stopped for a moment to notice them……and appreciate them…..and also pause to enjoy moments like this 👇👇👇