Some Call it Ghetto....

Cooper has been on Matt for a while to build him a pitchers mound. Kid pitch is something that has kind of snuck up on us. I was a little unprepared for Cooper to start pitching because I have vivid childhood memories of my brother pitching when he was younger. I remember the heartbreak he felt when his team lost, but even more than that, I remember my anxious mother nervously watching him pitch. I understand now that watching your child play a game is often more nerve racking than playing in one yourself.

On this beautiful day Matt decided to build the boys a mound. We are notorious for not having the appropriate tools to get a job done, so we improvise. It was a good time to get the kids outside and work together to get the job done. We used our cooler, which is now ruined and our stroller, which has been sitting broken for over a year to haul dirt back to our mound which we made out of scrap wood from our deck. Some people may call this ghetto, but here at the Erikson house we call it resourceful. In the end the boys are happy because they now have a pitchers mound.

This got me thinking my life. There are so many time when I feel ill-equipped to get the job done, but if I would get a little resourceful with what I already have I am sure that somewhere deep within myself I have the tools to get the job done.

One of my favorite scriptures says this,
“3 By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence.”
2 Peter 1:3

Everything I need to make my life a success and to do the things I feel called to do I already have through the power of God at work in my life. I can access all the great things that Christ has offered through His holy spirit. In all the areas I am lacking, He has provided a way.

There are tools lying around my life that I thought were supposed to work one way, but in the end God has designed them for a different purpose altogether. What may seem broken or used up, what appears to be old scraps from a different project may be just what I need to accomplish that new goal or project. I am not going to count myself out because I feel inadequate anymore, I am going to allow God to show me how to do the things that are in my heart, even when it seems impossible.

I choose to believe God can find a way to work with what I've got.