We just started another great season! No, it’s not the Easter season, although that wonderful season just around the corner. I’m talking about baseball season.
Excuse my enthusiasm, but I like baseball. It means I get to start coaching hitters again and that it’s time to start thinking about hitting position.
Hitting position is a fundamental common to every good baseball swing. The batting stances may vary, the styles may vary, but a batter who gets to proper hitting position makes for a consistent hitter. Hitting position allows a hitter to perfect one swing directed at any pitch versus learning 10 different swings from 10 different starting positions. It is the key to being a consistent hitter.
The best hitters in Major League Baseball get to hitting position on every single pitch.
Since successful batters get to hitting position on every swing helps them to hit a baseball, I wondered if the same principle could be used to fundamentally ground us in faithful living? Is there a faith version of hitting position?
Yes, it’s called the praying position. Prayer centers our faith and allows us to attack life from a faith-driven foundation for our life. The praying position lets us attack life from the same position instead of all over the place. It allows us to be consistent servants of God. Prayer connects us to God and to the belief which binds Christians.
Just as the batting stances and styles may vary in baseball, so do the methods and ways we all pray. At the core of praying position is the connection we make with God. We may pray out loud, in silence, on our knees, sitting at work, waiting for a train, it doesn’t matter what style you pray with, just pray. Anyone can do it. Open your mind, your heart, your ears and your eyes to God. That’s what prayer is.
Baseball season is upon us.
Can I get an “Amen”?
Praying season is ALWAYS with us.
Can I get a double “Amen”?
Work on your praying position, find your sweet spot and swing for the fences. Trust me, your life will get better. God is a greatest coach!
Copyright 2015, Mike Hays
Mike Hays
Mike Hays is a husband, a father of three, a lifelong Kansan and works as a molecular microbiologist. Besides writing, he has been a high school strength and conditioning coach, a football coach and a baseball coach. His debut middle grade historical fiction novel, THE YOUNGER DAYS, is a 2012 recipient of The Catholic Writer's Guild Seal of Approval Award. You can find it at the publisher's website or on Amazon.
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