Perfection

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God's Perfection

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>In Brooklyn, New York, Chush is a school that caters

>to learning disabled children. Some children remain

>in Chush for their entire school career, while other

>can be mainstreamed into conventional schools.

>At a Chush fundraising dinner, the father of a Chush

>child delivered a speech that would never be

>forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the

>school and its dedicated staff, he cried out, "Where

>is the perfection in my son Shay? Everything God

>does is done with perfection. But my child cannot

>understand things as other children do. My child

>cannot remember facts and figures as other children

>do. Where is God's perfection?"

>The audience was shocked by the question, pained by

>the father's anguish and stilled by the piercing

>query. "I believe," the father answered, "that when

>God brings a child like this into the world, the

>perfection that he seeks is in the way people react

>to this child." He then told the following story

>about his son Shay:

>One afternoon, Shay and his father walked past a

>park where some boys Shay knew were playing

>baseball. Shay asked, "Do you think they will let me

>play?" Shay's father knew that his son was not at

>all athletic and that most boys would not want him

>on their team. But Shay's father understood that if

>his son was chosen to play it would give him a

>comfortable sense of belonging.

>Shay's father approached one of the boys in the

>field and asked if Shay could play. The boy looked

>around for guidance from his teammates. Getting

>none, he took matters into his own hands and said,

>"We are losing by six runs and the game is in the

>eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and

>we'll try to put him up to bat in the ninth inning."

>Shay's father was ecstatic as Shay smiled broadly.

>Shay was told to put on a glove and go out to play

>short center field. In the bottom of the eighth

>inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still

>behind by three. In the bottom of the ninth inning,

>Shay's team scored again and now with two outs and

>the bases loaded with the potential winning run on

>base. Shay was scheduled to be up. Would the team

>actually let Shay bat at this juncture and give away

>their chance to win the game?

>Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew

>that it was all but impossible because Shay didn't

>even know how to hold the bat properly, let alone

>hit with it. However, as Shay stepped up to the

>plate, the pitcher moved up a few steps to lob the

>ball in softly so Shay should at least be able to

>make contact.

>The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and

>missed. One of Shay's teammates came up to Shay and

>together they held the bat and faced the pitcher

>waiting for the next pitch. The pitcher again took a

>few steps forward to toss the ball softly toward

>Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay and his teammate

>swung at the ball and together they hit a slow

>ground ball to the pitcher.

>The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could

>easily have thrown the ball to the first baseman.

>Shay would have been out and that would have ended

>the game. Instead, the pitcher took the ball and

>threw it on a high arc to right field, far beyond

>reach of the first baseman.

>Everyone started yelling, "Shay, run to first. Run

>to first." Never in his life had Shay run to first.

>He scampered down the baseline wide-eyed and

>startled. By the time he reached first base, the

>right fielder had the ball. He could have thrown the

>ball to the second baseman who would tag out Shay,

>who was still running. But the right fielder

>understood what the pitcher's intentions were, so he

>threw the ball high and far over the third baseman's

>head.

>Everyone yelled, "Run to second, run to second."

>Shay ran towards second base as the runners ahead of

>him deliriously circled the bases towards home. As

>Shay reached second base, the opposing short stop

>ran to him, turned him in the direction of third

>base and shouted, "Run to third." As Shay rounded

>third, the boys from both teams ran behind him

>screaming, "Shay run home." Shay ran home, stepped

>on home plate and all 18 boys lifted him on their

>shoulders and made him the hero, as he had just hit

>a "grand slam" and won the game for his team.

>"That day," said the father softly with tears now

>rolling down his face, "those 18 boys reached their

>level of God's perfection."

>Funny how this is so true!

>Funny how simple it is for people to trash different

>ways of living and believing and then wonder why the

>world is going to hell.

>Funny how people can send a thousand 'jokes' through

>email and they spread like wildfire, but when one

>starts sending messages regarding life choices,

>people think twice about sharing.

>Funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass

>freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of

>morality is too often suppressed in school and the

>workplace.

>Funny how when you go to forward this message (if

>you choose to forward it), you might not send it to

>many on your address list because you're not sure

>what they believe, or what they will think of you

>for sending it to them.

>Funny how we can be more worried about what other

>people think of us than what we think of ourselves.

>Let's share it with our children...

 

 

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