buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks

I had a new adventure this summer: I played on a softball team. I had seen my brother play little league back in the day & I had played baseball in the back yard. I thought, this will be a piece of cake. All I had to do was swing a bat, stand in the outfield & run. Surely, I could do that.

And now, reflecting on the season, perhaps I was a bit over confident at the start. My problem was not for lack of ability or enthusiasm; I hit the ball all right, I ran around the bases, and I ran around the outfield, and cheered for my teammates. (I'll admit, I could use some help with my catching and throwing, because apparently, I throw like a girl. But that detail aside, I didn't do too bad).

My apparent lapse in judgement came because I did not know all the rules. I am used to playing baseball. I knew that a softball was bigger than a baseball, and that the pitching was underhanded instead of overhanded. I figured that was about it. Boy, was I wrong. And to make matters worse, I also had to get used to co-ed rules. I didn't know the game was played differently if some of us were girls and some of us were boys.

So I learned a few things this summer. In softball you start with a ball and a strike (what kind of rule is that: why don't they just say 'two strikes and you're out'). There are 4 outfielders instead of 3. The infield fly rule- if the batter hits a fly ball in the infield, and the infielder does not catch it, the batter is still out. That is by far the most ridiculous rule I have heard of thus far. So, the defense no longer actually has to catch the ball... If I guy gets walked, he goes to second base, and the girl behind him gets the option of automatically walking to 1st base. And since the order has to rotate male-female, this makes no sense, because the next man up simply has to swing away and -BAM- 2 RBIs instead of 1.

I could make so many analogies now, but I won't. Suffice to say I learned a lot this summer while watching the dandelions grow in left center field.

I'm sure I have a lot more to learn.

unresolved

There is nothing pressing to write about at the moment, though it seems I have a lot of things in my life that are looking for a place to land. Situations that are begging for an answer, yet I leave them to the proverbial maybe later. It seems that when one issue gets fixed, another looms around the corner to take it's place.

I'm feeling unsettled at the moment, which often happens when God nudges something in my corner that I kick and scream at, knowing I should do something about it. Instead I sit at my chess board and think about ways I could out-maneuver God, if only to delay the decision I will inevitably have to make.