The sleepy dust is due to the fact the Rangers and Angels decided to give the fans in Anaheim free baseball last night, taking 12 innings to settle the score. Alfonso Soriano took a Matt Prinz pitch the other way in the top of the 12th to give the Rangers a 3-2 win. The win makes it worth staying up to the finish...1:00 A.M. Central time.
And as I noted yesterday, with the win, the Rangers propeled themselves from the cellar to first place. All teams in the AL West have now won one game.
The older I get, the more I become a "morning person." One of my favorite times each day is taking Trae to school. This morning, we stopped for donuts and the visits over breakfast each morning are priceless (that is, on the mornings when we let Mom sleep in and Trae and I go out for breakfast). But what is becoming the highlight of my day are the prayers of my daughter as we near school. Praying the last part of the drive to school has become our morning tradition. Trae, in her own simple, six-year old way, prays for God to help her throughout the day.
Learning from the prayers of my daughter, I am convinced we adults make prayer too difficult. Trae teaches me through her morning prayers that prayer is simply the outpouring of a heart to God. Her language is simple ("God, help me not get in trouble today at school). Her thanksgivings are genuine ("Thank you for the best baby mommy and baby sister in the world"). Her faith is real ("Thank you Jesus for dying on the cross").
Did you begin your morning with prayer? Did you pray on your way to work? Or to a recreational hobby? If not, pause for a moment to pour out your heart - simply, genuinely and honestly - with God.
