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S06E016, A Different Perspective Helps, Andy B 2 Minute Video Andy B Matters, by the BerryBunch
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S06E016, A Different Perspective Helps! Andy B 2 Minute Video
Life can throw us a curve ball. You know, for ages, I had absolutely no clue what that meant. A ball can’t curve! Unless, of course, it does. And if you can spin that ball fast enough, and throw it far enough, you’ll see how it can curve through the air – just like a car drifting a round a corner: wheels one way the car going another with the drive wheels spinning.
And that is what life can do – it can leave us reeling.
The whole point of a curve ball, of course – whether that is a baseball, a football or a snooker ball, is to make that object do things the other team wasn’t expecting: got get a goal, score a goal past the defenders, get out of a snooker.
When we’re on the defending side of that ball, it can be oh so very cruel!
A crippling illness; a concentration camp – these are terrible things. But, even with something as tragic as a terminal diagnosis or the evil of a concentration camp, there is still much possibility for joy.
I don’t speak for myself here – I’m paraphrasing from The Hiding Place, written by Corrie Ten Boom about her WWII experience in a concentration camp and for a lovely lady I met with an illness which left her utterly devoid of any sense of independence.
Yet both of those women found a way to pursue joy. And that is something I am not good at. But I’m not good at it yet - how about you?
Just a thought…
Andy B
Instagram, devotional, pauseforthought, SpeakTruth, GoDo, honesty, thought, Godstuff, onelifeliveit, onelifeliveit,
S06E016, A Different Perspective Helps! Andy B 2 Minute Video
Life can throw us a curve ball. You know, for ages, I had absolutely no clue what that meant. A ball can’t curve! Unless, of course, it does. And if you can spin that ball fast enough, and throw it far enough, you’ll see how it can curve through the air – just like a car drifting a round a corner: wheels one way the car going another with the drive wheels spinning.
And that is what life can do – it can leave us reeling.
The whole point of a curve ball, of course – whether that is a baseball, a football or a snooker ball, is to make that object do things the other team wasn’t expecting: got get a goal, score a goal past the defenders, get out of a snooker.
When we’re on the defending side of that ball, it can be oh so very cruel!
A crippling illness; a concentration camp – these are terrible things. But, even with something as tragic as a terminal diagnosis or the evil of a concentration camp, there is still much possibility for joy.
I don’t speak for myself here – I’m paraphrasing from The Hiding Place, written by Corrie Ten Boom about her WWII experience in a concentration camp and for a lovely lady I met with an illness which left her utterly devoid of any sense of independence.
Yet both of those women found a way to pursue joy. And that is something I am not good at. But I’m not good at it yet - how about you?
Just a thought…
Andy B
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