TOD 04.11.08

We’re over a week into the new baseball season, and there are basically two reactions to me saying so: cheering and silence. The cheers are from fans who love the game and can’t understand how others don’t. The silence is from people who either dislike it or else don’t care, and they can’t comprehend why anyone would love it so much.

If you’re someone who loves baseball, most likely you were either raised by parents who passed on their enthusiasm for the game to you, or else you became friends with someone who invited you to play or attend a game, which you enjoyed. I suppose some people even fell in love with it from radio or television. But for us who love it, we always have to remember that the main reason people don’t is that they never had anyone with enough enthusiasm, knowledge, and patience share it with them.

And until that happens, they’ll go on being baffled by our love for baseball, just as we are often baffled by how they don’t love it, we can easily forget that we ever didn’t. And, at least in this way, Jesus is a lot like baseball.