On the desk in my office sits a Rochester Red Wings baseball. It came from a game I attended at Frontier Field a couple of years ago and has significant meaning.
Lindsay and her family had invited me to attend a game with them and we were sitting behind home plate next to a man who knew a lot about the team players--their statistics and batting averages, etc. So, it was great fun.
Late in the game, a player came up to bat. The man next to us said, "Oh, boy! This isn't good for the Red Wings. He has a terrible batting average ..."
Lindsay and I looked at each other ... thinking the same thing--and then Lindsay turned out to the baseball field and yelled, "Come on, Sean! You are better than your average!!!"
We roared with laughter and in the next pitch or so, darned if Sean didn't hit a home run! We laughed even more ...
As we left the game, we were talking about the fantastic home run and what a wonderful time we had had --even though the Red Wings lost --and when I looked down, my eyes went along the fence line, and lo and behold, there was the baseball!!! --right at the fence line. It was INCREDIBLE to have found it and even more incredible that I could actually picked it up and bring it home.
And yet, there it is ... the baseball ... sitting on my desk.
Sometimes, as I am listening to the playback of an orchestration, or thinking about my work, I will pick the baseball up and examine it. Every time I do, it inspires me. It encourages me because it reminds me that if I try, remembering that people believe in me, I can always be better than my average!
