In the latest news in and about the LDS Church, we recall how Joseph Fielding Smith helped Utah gain control of the Great Salt Lake, the gender gap in General Conferences, and how baseball extols the virtue of getting home safely.
New York Yankees designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton jumps on home plate after hitting a grand slam in 2020.Eighth inning • The object of the game is to score runs.
Once stat geeks get past the OBPs and the ERAs, the strikeouts and the shutouts, the batting averages and the slugging percentages, baseball is really about one thing: scoring runs by touching home plate. It’s the heart of the game and parallels this life lesson: Every day of every week of every month of every year of every lifetime — our main goal is to get home safely.
It’s an objective that is profoundly simple yet simply profound: getting home safely. You learn that lesson as a toddler. You test it as a teenager. You preach it as a parent. Everything that matters most revolves, it seems, around home and family. There is a reason baseball’s home plate stands out. It is shaped not like the other bases but, fittingly, like a house. Home truly is where the heart is — in the game and in life.for “at least two months.
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