If you’ve never played duck-duck-goose 1-on-1 against a 3
year old, you have not truly lived.
During my sitting turns, Lulit would walk around me and tap me once or
twice as “duck” and then take off at “goose.”
Of course, for me there was no catching her as I tried to get my
45-year-old body quickly up off the rug while she raced out of the front room
through the kitchen and then back into her spot in the front room. Then, when I was “it” and tapped her as the
goose I’d follow the same path through the kitchen, but that little quail would
cheat and come around back the other way to make sure I was caught. This was the joyous start of my Good Friday
after the boys all got off to school. I
had the day off, which was a wonderful break from the awkward place that work
has become for me lately. I was blessed
with lots of great time with the family on Friday, capped off with a nice mile
by the firstborn boy.
On Thursday afternoon he asked me how fast he would have to
run for me to pay him five dollars, and we agreed on 5:05 . Here then are
the splits from his high school mile debut (they don’t come out perfectly due
to some slight rounding error):
72.9
77.8
77.6
76.6
Put another way, 2:30.7 + 2:34.1 = 5:04.8, and just barely fast enough to put me out an Abe Lincoln! Dang, that is a well paced race, and 25
seconds faster than his fastest 8th grade mile. What a runner he is becoming. What a runner he is!
Good Friday is good for me, isn’t it? Jesus died for my sins and displayed the glory
of His love for us all. The original was
a horrible, shocking Friday, but it was definitely a good Friday. This Good Friday was also a pretty good day – much smaller by comparison, but still a good day.
Thank you, Jesus.