Keep Plugging Away

It's late. Sorry about that, I've been thinking about what it was that I wanted to write and now it's late. That and I was watching the Alamo Bowl as Texas Tech  beat Michigan State 41-31. All three kids are finally asleep too. Little Man sure had a LOT of energy tonight it seemed like, it was probably 11:15 at least before he finally went down. Roni is asleep behind me and I now sit here writing and drinking a glass of cold sweet tea (Red Diamond). 



As I watched to Alamo Bowl on ESPN I glanced at the ticker every once in a while to keep up with what was going on in the other sports. There was one score in particular that caught my attention early, so I decided to keep an eye on it the rest of the time.  t was a Women's College Basketball score that had me intrigued. All I know is what the final score was, I have no other details than that. The game was Texas State against Baylor.

Baylor's women happen to be ranked #5 in the nation, Texas State, well, not so much. When I first happened to glance at the score it was I believe 48-4 late in the first half. Needless to say that kind of grabbed my attention. That's why I kept watching the ticker-to see how bad it got by the time it was all done. I know that at one point I saw 80-10 I think and then again 90-14. The final score was 99-18. That's an 81 point difference. That is, to use a technical term, a beat down.

It made me wonder though when I saw the final score what it was like to be one of the players on the Texas State team. I mean that couldn't be fun you know. Like I said, I have no other details of what happened in the game, how it went down if Baylor's ladies finally decided to play in reverse or let Texas State play as make-it take-it at the end or what. All I know is that Texas State had to have kept plugging away to get to 18. I mean regardless of the fact that they were beaten by 81 points, they had to have kept trying, even when it felt and looked like it was lost cause and a pointless thing to do.

It makes me think of Moses a little bit, especially those final 40 years when he was leading the Israelites around in the desert. It had to at times feel like such a lost cause, a pointless thing to be doing. All these people had done was to complain since the time they had been delivered from Egypt, that was the reason they were still wandering in desert rather than kickin' it in the Promised Land. And in all of this, Moses was the one who had to deal with them. It would have to be frustrating. And yet he was faithful, he kept plugging away, and in the end, God showed him the Promised Land.

I don't know about anyone else, but I know that there are times when this is how I feel. Like some of the stuff I do is pointless or that it seems to make very little difference. And yet, like Moses, like the Lady Bobcats of Texas State (I think that is what they are) I'm supposed to keep plugging away.  It's hard at times...shoot many times it would be easier and faster to just quit. Yet we know that there is a reason for us to continue on and stay the course. Maybe it is to be an example to someone else, or maybe it is to help us learn something that we need to know for that next stage of life. Whatever it is, there is a reason for us to keep plugging away.

Peace and Love y'all.