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AT A CHILD'S SOFTBALL GAME
If you’re lucky…if you’re blessed you can discover joy at any time…in any place…I remember the day I found it…of all places…upon a child’s face.
I remember we were far removed from fortune and from fame…sitting in the stands at a child’s softball game.
I watched this little girl strike out…on three pitches…without ever swinging the bat…I watched her smile all the way to the dugout and I thought…how’d she find joy in that?
Next time up she got a hit and that same smile crossed her face…the same smile as she took off and landed safe on second base.
She played the field wearing that same smile and immediately I thought…that smile appears on her face when the ball is hit…whether she catches it…or not!
She played with the same joy when she did well…when she made the perfect play as she did when she made an error…when she threw the ball away.
I remember watching the game that night and becoming happily aware…her joy wasn’t in how well she did…her joy was just being there.
And mine too…as I thought to myself…how lucky that I came…and how blessed to discover the face of joy…at a child’s softball game.
