Seeing a Facebook memory from 2012 & reading my comments when I shared it 4 years ago reminded me that I was thinking of Daddy last night as I watched the Texas Rangers, wondering if they could manage to win Game 3 of the World Series & take a 2-1 lead in the series. (They did!)
The year he died, the Rangers had just lost, in heart-crushing fashion, their second consecutive World Series. The games, especially the ones leading up to the series, were often topics of discussion in those last weeks.
In 2011, Oct. 30 became a day when sadness & celebration & bigger pictures all come together. It’s Becky’s birthday & also the day Daddy died. Somehow, that made last night’s improbable win against the Arizona Diamondbacks & so many “odds” especially gratifying.
I know that when it comes to the World Series, individual games don’t matter much until that 4th game is won. It’s still important to enjoy each win & to be grateful when memories of precious loved ones are stirred.
From 2019: This (a video of me singing The New 23rd (Psalm) was in my memories from seven years ago. My guess is I was thinking of my Daddy, who died about this time a year earlier (Oct. 30, 2011). I am proud to be a daughter of the Psalmist's son. Charles Baker DAVIDSON.
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