Play Ball!

A friend sent me an email about the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, who are now playing the World Series, she said it reminded her of Luke. In 2007 they were the worst baseball team in the American league, written off as perennial losers, and thought to have zero chance of playing in the 2008 World Series. In 2007, Luke was written off by many doctors as having little chance of any meaningful recovery from his injury. Well if you have followed Tampa Bay in the last few weeks, you know they made it to the AL finals, set against the reining champs from 2007, the Boston Red Sox. In one of the most amazing come-backs in playoff history, Boston got hot and won game five 8-7. Worse yet, Boston won the next game and tied the series 3-3. In those extremely tense and frantic moments, the beliefs, confidence, focus, and poise of Tampa were tested to the limits. And that test continued throughout the final game before Tampa finally won. We have certainly had moments where our beliefs, focus, and confidence have been tested beyond any limits you could ever imagine. Tampa Bay, however, did not give up, they keep believing, fighting, and swinging--- even when their confidence has been shaken and all momentum has stalled. This is exactly what we have done, when those doctors told us Luke would never do anything, we would not believe it. We have and will keep believing, fighting, and pressing forward forever, because you can never give up! We will continue to step up to the plate, just as the Devil Rays did to get to where they are, and keep on swinging! On that note, Luke is scheduled to get his second stem cell treatment on November 4th. Please fire up all of your prayer warriors for Luke on that day, for a successful treatment, and amazing results. Now the Luke story of the day, Mike turned on the World Series game tonight, when the National anthem came on, we looked down at Luke and he had his hand on his heart...how precious is that, I am pretty sure we haven't seen nothing yet from this Gladiator...a grand slam is coming! Believe!