An Analogy of Life

Life is like a baseball game. It can throw some pretty nasty pitches at us. Fastballs, curveballs, sliders, drop balls, alot of knuckle balls and some spit balls.Spit balls are illegal.Some pitches are strikes and the rest are wild pitches that quite often hit us and sometimes seriously hurt us. There are no walks or free bases, but all strikes are foul balls, so you can't strike out. There are only two ways to advance, to first base. Either get a good hit or get hit with the ball. Those are our rewards. All strikes are foul balls, because that shows the effort and determination we used to try and get a good hit, but did not succeed. That effort, alone, keeps us in the game. A good hit will get us on base, but we have to use all of the gifts and talents we have, in an effort NOT to be put out, when we try to advance to the next base. To win the game, we have to swing at every pitch. If we get knocked down, we have to get up before the next pitch is thrown, stand in at the plate and swing again, hoping for the home run.