They Did It!

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The Red Sox won the World Series last night. I got home from the evening church service in time to watch the game. I missed roughly 15 games out of 162 during the regular season, and I caught every game of the postseason. Yeah, I love the game and the team. We celebrated a little last night, but things are quieter at home now. My wife and my daughter have gone to work and I’m here alone getting some work done with MLBN on the TV. It’s been a fun season and the playoffs, along with the World Series, were all well played. Way to go Sox!

A little while ago I left for a few minutes to make a deposit at the bank for the church. When I returned I noticed that the TV was on with World Series talk blaring loud and clear within the house. The unusual thing about this was that I never leave the TV on when I leave the house since the accident. I wrote about this once several entries ago within this blog. (See Here)

The thing is that the Red Sox last won the World Series about a month before the accident. I have memories of the things that I did to celebrate that year, but it lasted only a few weeks. The most that I did after the accident involved a World Series Champions’ sign printed by my brother-in-law and hung in front of my bed in the hospital, along with me wearing a World Series cap often to physical therapy. I otherwise had to pretty much stop celebrating while focusing on everything that had happened to me as a result of the accident. The two events have always seemed so prominently linked to me, the 2013 World Series and the accident.  But…not in such a good way.

That brings me back to last night’s victory. It seems like such a gift that here I am, five years later, getting stronger and adjusting to all that has happened to me. Then, I get a new World Series victory to celebrate. Now this morning I left the TV on when leaving the house for a short errand. I haven’t done that since coming home from the hospital. I’m thinking that maybe my subconscious mind gave me permission to live normally as my body has gotten stronger and life has moved beyond all of the events going back five years. I’m thinking that perhaps I was too busy this morning enjoying the life that God has given me to worry about not making it back home from an errand. Life is good.


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