Miracles
Parker had a basketball game today and all season long they've been getting clobbered pretty good. Today was no exception! They lost about 40-5, but Parker scored the first point of his short and unillustratrious basketball career. I cried tears of joy! I know that sounds awfully sentimental, but let me put it in context. I've been practicing free throws with Parker for two months. I think he's hit the rim twice! And he's never made a free throw in his life. I repeat. He's never made a free throw in his life.
So he got fouled in the game today and to be perfectly honest I felt bad for him because 98% of his free throws are air balls. I thought it would be embarrassing. I prayed like nobody's business. Plus his Uncle Joel and Aunt Nina were there so I wanted him to feel good about his game. Do you remember what Al Michael's said at the end of the 1980 USA victory over the Soviet Union in hockey? "Do you believe in miracles." Parker made the first free throw of his entire life. And he did it in a game. We exploded. I was jumping for joy! It was a hallelujah moment. I think I was more excited about his first made shot than all of my shots combined!
Sorry if I'm going overboard, but this is a blog!
So he got fouled in the game today and to be perfectly honest I felt bad for him because 98% of his free throws are air balls. I thought it would be embarrassing. I prayed like nobody's business. Plus his Uncle Joel and Aunt Nina were there so I wanted him to feel good about his game. Do you remember what Al Michael's said at the end of the 1980 USA victory over the Soviet Union in hockey? "Do you believe in miracles." Parker made the first free throw of his entire life. And he did it in a game. We exploded. I was jumping for joy! It was a hallelujah moment. I think I was more excited about his first made shot than all of my shots combined!
Sorry if I'm going overboard, but this is a blog!
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