July 27

The positive news is that Brady's team won both of the tournament games they played down in Sunnyvale today, so they're the number one seed going into tomorrow.

The not as positive news is that Brady himself didn't have his A-game stuff. He batted at the very bottom of the order, struck out several times, walked a few times, and had a nice liner to right that dropped in for a hit. But he didn't have it from the pitcher's mound.

And that was hard; hard for him to experience, hard for us to watch. 

But the other good news is that I know --and underneath it all, he knows-- that he's a solid pitcher, and that today was an anomaly. So today I'm thankful for how we can learn from challenges -- and that God provides comfort to all who seek Him amid their struggles.