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HIJINKS AT 20-2

Our daughter Eden’s high-school softball team has won 20 games and lost only 2. They have just four more regular-season games before the conference, district and state tournaments. Their spirits are high.

The varsity girls were on the bus at an away game last week whiling away the time while the JV played. They watched their beloved coach, the dignified father of two, go inside the porta-potty next to the bus.

Naturally, they talked one of their number into racing over there and rocking the outhouse back and forth a few times just to give Coach a little jolt.

She did it, with style, to the hysterical laughter of her teammates. She came racing back to the bus and slid into her seat with more fervor than you’d slide into home plate in the last inning of a tight game.

Coach came stalking out a second later, in mock fury, demanding to know who had done such a thing.

They blamed it on their All-State pitcher, an absolute angel, who has never done anything wrong in her entire life. The jokes and laughter continued for quite a while.

Eden said it was the funniest thing she has ever seen and the highlight of the season, and that’s saying something, since she has hit a triple and a ground-rule double in the last few games.

Even though we want her to work hard in school and do her best in sports, we are happy that she will have a few crazy memories like this to look back on and smile. You may not always be 20-2 in ‘’real life’’ . . . but you’ll always be a winner if you remember to have some fun.

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Prayer request: A new friend, Janet, has shared that housework is getting to be very difficult drudgery. The endless, mundane tasks and routines are really getting on her nerves. Can you relate? Father God, renew her spirit of adventure for her everyday life. Bring joy, music and surprises into her life, and an Attitude Adjustment for all of us about how lucky we are to have nice homes, and how we can glorify You by keeping them neat. (Titus 2:7)