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After college, I coached a girl’s baseball team, and through my experiences on the field I’ve realized there are many spiritual analogies that one can draw from the sport.
For example, infielders and outfielders are continually engaged in strategic positioning. This pre-positioning is in anticipation of hits and potential plays, and gauged to achieve optimal results. Similarly, I like to think about the mental positions we occupy. God’s man is poised and equipped to grow spiritually, so we can’t be stuck in an entrenched position that inhibits growth in our personal and professional lives. In Mary Baker Eddy’s book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, she says, “In Christian Science there is never a retrograde step, never a return to positions outgrown” (p. 74). The time to assume our best mental “position,” one that uses a spiritual standpoint as its basis, is always now.
Years ago, a friend shared a testimony at a Wednesday evening meeting at church. It was about how the story of David and Goliath (see I Samuel 17) helped improve her game when she was playing in an adult softball league. She wanted to do her best for the team, expressing courage, and one day she took David’s example to heart—how he fearlessly approached Goliath. She began running toward the balls that were coming to her in her outfield position. And she had some great results.
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Lu Ann Condon lives in Traverse City, Michigan.
