Just Another Road Win/Feelings

okay, we won. big deal? yes it is!!! anytime you win on the road, it is a good thing and yes, a big deal.
we left yesterday and it was a beautiful day to be on the road. sunny, mid 80's. it was a beautiful night for baseball. the team we are playing has a better record than us. we also had 3 or 4 players be "sent up" so that was great for them and their careers. now we have some new faces and to watch them come in and contribute like they did shows the professionalism they already have. in hanging around ballparks, i see a lot of people. most are very nice and share the same passion for baseball that i do. some look like the people your parents warned you about when growing up. the guys i am around have always been very respectful and i could not ask for better working relationships. i can't say enough good things about them. when we visit other parks and i see some of the other players and their attitudes, i know i am blessed (started to say lucky. see previous blog about luck).
while at the game last night, my 8 year old called me crying and told me she wanted me to come home and be with her. it rips your heart out when your kids do this. especially when it is day 1 of a 10 day trip. as i talked to her trying to calm her down and tell her how much i wanted to be with her and i loved her, it occurred to me she was in trouble with her mother!!! she was telling me about a house in their neighborhood for sale and she wanted me to buy it so she and her brother could ride their bicycles to see me. i knew then she was in deep trouble. and hurting.
as i think about her trying to express to me what she was really feeling, don't we as adults do the same thing? we are feeling something we can't, or won't, express so it comes out it a way that is different. we get mad at loved ones or friends over something small when that was not the root. as someone told me, "tell me what you think and i am not much help. tell me what you are feeling and i will do all i can to help". kids, as well as adults communicate much the same. sometimes we don't want to know what others are feeling. if we truly care, we will take the time to find out.
until next time...