After sitting in Buffalo for a week alone in our apartment, I decided to go ahead and make the trek home after S’s last home stand. The Bisons’ schedule after the long road trip was 4 games at home then another week long road trip and eventually ending the season on the road. It’s always a weird emotion when the season comes to an end. It’s like the closing of a chapter of yet another baseball season. After every season, I seem to always find myself looking back on my favorite memories and places I got to experience. Also, I like to look back at the people God placed in my life along the journey and the impact they had on my life. I tend to think this is a woman characteristic, but I like to reflect on why God put certain people in my life during the season. I go over every instance and think, “Wow, I didn’t realize it but glad God put that person in my life in that particular instance.”

As I’m winding down at home with my kitty, I realized that I enjoy the unexpected and the changes that baseball brings into my life. I know sometimes I wish that our life could be simple and less complicated, but the truth is that I cannot imagine my life without the craziness and changes every season brings. It has made me the person I am today! I am able to deal with so many different personalities because the good Lord knows moving all across the country you don’t always get the Southern hospitality I’m accustomed to. I have become such an independent woman, and I love the fact that I can say that about myself. I have gained so many characteristics such as courageous, brave, multi-tasker, understanding, good listener, encourager, positive thinker and so many more things because of this life God gave me.

Change is something I think everyone is afraid of because we all get comfortable in our lives and venturing out into the unknown brings out fear in all of us.  Francis Chan says, “But God doesn’t call us to be comfortable.  He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn’t come through.”  If I have conquered anything in my 20s its the fear of change.  We are called to live life deliberately and to embrace change with God on our side.

Change in baseball can look something like traded, released, retirement, call ups, sign with new team or sent down.  These changes come with new cities, teammates, women, apartments, stadiums and people.  The great thing about the baseball community is we all go through the same things its just a different scenery.  The ladies I have come to know through this life have become some of my best friends, and I have no idea what I would do without their love and support throughout the changes and ups and downs this life can bring.  God has truly blessed S and I immensely with the changes we have encountered.  As I look back on this season, it will always be a special one as S made his major league debut and received his first MLB win.  Now, I couldn’t be more ready for what God has in store for us next!

Thanks for reading,

XOXO,

HC