For the past 3 years we have served with the "Miracle League" baseball team. Jay has been the "coach" for the past several years, and EB has been his little "assistant coach". We have had roughly the same team since we started, and that has given us the chance to develop relationships with them. This has become our family's favorite thing to do together each Spring. Our friends make us smile and laugh like no one else can. They are so very content, so joyful, so trusting, and so loving. The smiles on their faces bring belly laughs out of us! They love us so simply, so uncomplicated, but so deeply.
Our children are beginning to develop the same love for our friends that we have, and seeing them interact with them could melt the hardest of hearts. Elijah's empathetic, compassionate, and tender heart is growing bigger and bigger each year. Any ounce of "fear" or uncertainty has completely left him, and he sees no difference between himself and them. He loves them so purely. He simply loves to play baseball with them and looks for opportunities to talk to them or help them on the field. Ellison showed her compassionate heart just tonight when one of our players was crying. Kim threw her arms around me crying and laid her head down on my shoulder. Ellison, who was in my arms, said, "I want hug Miss Kim too, she sad, she cry, I want hug her"...., and so she did.
Thankful for these opportunities, to love and be loved.
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| This is half of the team - the rest were on another bus and it was late! Our team this year is called, "Dogs on Call". |
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| Love, love, love this guy! He calls himself, "Artist". He is always smiling, and always doing something so goofy! |
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| Great friends, enjoying each other's company in the dugout! |
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| This is our good friend Raymon - such a happy guy, all the time |
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| "Assistant Coach # 2" |
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| EB giving Leah a ball |
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| Doing a "happy dance" after someone had a great bat! |
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| EB talking to Matt |
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| Jay walking Leah around the bases |
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| EB giving a ball to Christian. Christian will hug and kiss me every time he sees me and tell me how much he loves me! |
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| "Artist" being goofy again! |
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| Our friend Terry up to bat |
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on the move.......
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| Kim |
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| Entire team at the end of the game. |
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