Day 24 (Note: Day 24 is the 24th -I love symmetry.)
1. Rookie Brewers pitcher Yovani Gallardo gets a no-hitter going (of course it’s broken up in the 5th, but it feels like nail-biting time).
2. There’s one baby in your section, 213. Who gets hit by the foul ball off the bat of the Royals’ Tony Pena in the 7th? The baby. A little scary, that one. (No worries – his parents got him checked out and were bravely back in their seats by the end of the inning.)
3. Brewers pitcher Derrick Turnbow gives up the go-ahead run in the 8th. Grrr.
4. The people in charge at Miller Park think it’s a good idea to destroy 44,000+ persons’ inner ear hair cells by encouraging y’all to “Make Noise”! (Side effect: headache for the remainder of the day)
5. Corey Hart hits a homer to tie it up in the bottom of the ninth. Hurrah! Except you think you strained something jumping up and down.
6. Brewers pitcher Jose Capellan walks in the winning run in the top of the eleventh. Brewers lose to the (not-so) Royals 4-3.
“We” lost. Still, there were a lot of twists and turns that made those 4 hours extremely entertaining. And it was a bobblehead day, so now I have bouncy-headed center fielder Bill Hall glowering out at me from the windowsill.
Good game? Yes. Relaxing? Not on your life. I’m exhausted.
Onward.
As an MK, I probably couldn’t count the number of times I’ve sung the hymn “Jesus Saves”. It’s like “We’ve a Story to Tell to the Nations” – one of those good missions songs churches like to sing when the missionaries come a’visiting.
But today when we sang it, this line stood out:
Shout it brightly through the gloom, when the heart for mercy craves . . . Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
My heart is a craver of mercy. When I see my sinfulness in its sharp contrast to God’s holiness, I know I need mercy. I need to not get what I deserve. I’m thankful that Jesus saved me when I first trusted him. I’m thankful that he saves me each day in the ongoing process of sanctification.
That’s grace. That’s mercy.
Made for Eternity 