Monday Morning Manna: Playoff Baseball and Beautiful Days.

The writer of Ecclesiastes acknowledges that “to everything there is a season” (Ecclesiastes 3:1).??Although baseball had not been invented at that writing, this week begins Major League Baseball playoff season. Here is what some have said about this wonderful season:

·???????? The more important thing is to win enough games to get into the playoffs, then once you get into the playoffs, win.

·???????? Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose. I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.

·???????? This is why you play - to get an opportunity to play in the playoffs.

·???????? In the playoffs, it is do or die. You win or you go home. As a competitor, you love it.

·???????? It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish.

·???????? October baseball is what it's all about.

I might add that when your team is not in the playoffs, you don’t rush home so fast to see the first pitch. If you are a real baseball FANatic, it matters less who’s playing, than it does that there is a game to watch.??Play ball! At least a few more times, before we have to watch football and basketball till next March.?And whatever season your life is in, remember that the same writer of Ecclesiastes, before that chapter 3 is over, wrote, “He (God) has made everything beautiful in its time. (Eccl. 3:11).? Have a beautiful day.

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Dr. Dan R. Crawford, Senior Professor, Chair of Prayer Emeritus; Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas. Former Head of Task Force for the Teaching of Prayer in Theological Education for America’s National Prayer Committee.? Administrative Consultant for the Valley Baptist Missions Education Center. President of Disciple All Nations, Inc.

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