What if I don't make it?

…looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Heb. 12:2

This is my first time trying to blog through a book. I am going to blog through Willie Mays The life, The Legend by James Hirsch. This is based on the Prologue.

I have dyslexia. It has been a struggle for me all my life. I have fought it with a passion every step of the way. I have tried everything from hating it to embracing it to laughing at it. When I was in third grade Miss Summers volunteered to take me on as a project, to help me adjust to life with dyslexia. I fought that woman tooth and nail almost everyday. I hated being treated different.

Over the years since then I have tried not to let it discourage me, but I always have this daunting question in the back of my mind “What if I don’t make it?”

That was the question that Willie Mays said out loud the first time he was sitting in front of the owner of the Giants, Horace C. Stoneham. Horace responded with all the ilk of an owner and told Willie the mere fact that he was sitting in front of him meant that he had made it! Horace C. Stoneham didn’t make guesses at baseball, he knew through prolonged study and scouting that the question was already answered it was just a matter of how it was going to play out.

“What if I don’t make it?” It is a really fair question from Willie’s perspective. It is tough being the one who has to produce. I think it is a question that a lot of people ask themselves every single day.

What happens when we apply this question to our faith? Religion teaches us that this is the most important question. We need to ask ourselves this question daily, maybe several times a day, because in the end we really don’t know if we are going to make it or not. Jesus gets rid of this question, it is the beauty of the gospel. We don’t live with this question anymore. This question has been completely answered. He did it, we get it, game over.