10.20.12

This week a friend told me that it is easier for him to completely tune out his favorite baseball team than be a fan. To clarify, he told me that as a fan in the past he would become overly invested, leading to disappointment and feeling poorly if the team did not succeed. As a fan of that same baseball team I tried to coax him back, telling him that it is possible to live somewhere in between.

It is easier for us as humans to deal in extremes rather than somewhere in the ambiguous middle. Think of this in terms of faith. It is considerably easier for us to say there isn't a God because believing that there is requires faith. And faith in the already but not yet of our salvation is tough because the present life poses disappointment, hurt, and struggle.

I love baseball, but winning or losing in the end doesn't really matter (remind me of this if the Giants do not take it all the way this season). Yet it does matter for us who dare to hope in eternity - that one day all the soreness of the in between will one Day be resolved in final victory. And that is worth cheering on until that Day.