duluth art fair

FACTS: Shoeless Joe batted over .300 in all of his 11 full major league seasons. His .356 lifetime batting average is third-highest in major league baseball history. In 1911 he hit a fantastic .408 of what was essentially his rookie season, setting a rookie record that still stands greater than a hundred years later. Ironically, Ty Cobb hit .420 that season, denying Joe the league batting title. Despite his .356 lifetime average, Jackson never won a league batting crown. On April 20, 1912, Joe scored the initial run in Tiger Stadium history. Jackson won his only World Series championship using the White Sox in 1917. I often wonder about the lions we battle inside our religious lives; is it real or imagined? There are numerous terrifying threats to the spiritual being. But still, I wonder whether were devoted to the live or imagined lions. We can point at society using its values and mores and pinpoint how it differs from our image of a spiritual existence. I don?t want my children to look at television and learn that youngsters may meet with their parents as though we were holding idiots. That is a very real threat. I do not want my kids and grandchildren growing up inside a world where relationships are casual and all sorts of too often, meaningless. However, essentially the most fearsome lions I face are all internal. My own confusion, questions, desires, and inner battles all are greater threats to my relationship with God than others lions and threats outside of the walls of my house.