Thursday, March 18, 2010

Girl Basketball Player

March 19

By the last game of the youth basketball season everyone on the team had scored except Melissa. In the closing minute, as the coach, I told Missey to camp near the basket and for the boys to pass the ball to her. They did.

With two hands she pushed the ball up. It hit under the rim and bounced back to her. She pushed it up again and it went in the basket. Cheers and high fives all around.

A happy Missey came to the sideline. I gave her a congratulatory hug. I had no way of knowing it then, but this happy ten-year-old would be the mother of three of my grandchildren.

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you..." (Jeremiah 1:5)

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