A Cup of Coffee

As most of you, I sometimes begin my morning with a cup of coffee. It helps to wake me up and just enjoy the morning. Having coffee on days when you don't have to be anywhere, lets you slow down and think about things. Enjoying this cup o' joe doesn't last too long before reality sets in and you have to get back life. You try to make the most of this time and enjoy yourself as much as possible.

As I was searching our bookshelf for another book to read, a title from one of Angela's books caught my eye. I haven't read it, but it was titled, Cup of Coffee. I just asked Angela what it's about and as the title suggests, it's about coffee.

What does it have to do with baseball, you ask?

As you might imagine, making it to the Major Leagues is extremely difficult. Future prospects in baseball have about a 1 in 10,000 chance to make it to the big leagues. Many minor league players never make it up and if they do, they only get to stay for a little while. In essence, they only get to the majors for "a cup of coffee". In the movie, Bull Durham, Crash Davis talks about his "cup of coffee" as being the best of his life. Someone carries your bags, the batting practice balls are white, the off-speed pitches are crisper. It's all surreal. Didn't last long for him though and he was back on a minor league bus.

Kinda like the Christian life, ain't it? Stay with me, I know this life on earth isn't the major leagues but we're here only a little while. James 4:14 says "Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." Time passes quickly, this life is only a "cup of coffee"; are you making an impact for the Kingdom?