Finishing Well
Monday, October 1st, 2007One hundred and sixty-two games ago, the baseball season began. And now, the day after the regular season should have ended, one game remains. The fabled MLB tiebreaker–only the seventh ever. All of the toil, the work, the wins, the losses, the injuries, the blood, sweat, and tears, comes down to this.
It’s now or never.
The season’s on the line.
Win or go home.
Reminds me of law school. Three weeks out, all but the end ahead, depleted by injuries, exhausted, facing what comes next, it all comes down to this. Everything, or nothing, comes after. All I want to do is move on–and what it takes to move on is a concentrated, disciplined effort to finish everything up.
Reminds me of Scripture:
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
It all comes down to this.