Duct tape your mouth shut!

Tonight at softball-I was catcher and also played third base, getting at least three outs and stopping two runs. We ended our winning streak and I lost it on the EQP tonight as he was criticizing my batting strategy from behind the fence. Funny thing...he strikes out at least once a game and I've never have as of yet, I've always made the runs, just wait for the right pitch to give me the time to make it to first and maybe round to second. I'm an encouraging and supportive player to all of our teammates and even at times the opposing team members. The last two weeks I've been catcher because I've been running in the morning and my shoes are to small giving me more blisters with every passing day (today I did 5.4 miles in flip flops and still got a blister!) After I took a base for my waiting on the pitchers 3 balls, I went back and threw the bat at the fence towards the EQP (I had a runner, who can't bat and were the perfect pair cause running on dirt in flops isn't my fave). He was grinning at me and I let him have it more than I've let anyone have it in years. I told him, "He better shut his mouth, cause next week I'd be bringing duct tape and I'd be using it if I heard anything critical out of his face!" Bp was standing right next to him and nothing was said, just glances of seriousness exchanged.

I don't get why people here associate callings with capability or capacity. In church on Sunday, the spirit testified to me the reason I needed to be called as Relief Society President is because God places us in callings to teach us skills and attributes we may not gain any other way. Not that we are amazing or spectacular saints being called to positions of grandeur or aspiration, He calls us in our weakness and qualifies us for the work. If we all acted out of our own free will and accord to the best of our ability there would be no formal need for callings in the church. We are all just the little guys, no calling in the church is better than another. It's some whacked Utah status quo to have this or that calling...wild!

Regardless of who said the comments for there were others sassing players, and here I am sassing Andrew, maybe he had a hard day at work and I should have responded to him with empathy and love? I know I should have... however it brought me to a further reflection of what's been on my mind most of the day-a need to be proactive and not reactive to life's happenstances. Covey covers this in his literature and I know it to be true. Positivity, encouragement, and charity are the way to others feeling God's love through us. We need to always strive to lift where we stand and be builders of the kingdom. Not build up personal walls to keep us safe, but if we have a focal point on building others up, in turn the Lord elevates us to a higher plane than we can yet comprehend. This is where the principle of forgetting yourself and going to work comes into play...I will bring duct take next week, but I will most likely use it, asking Andrew to tape my mouth that I remain positive and proactive and for anyone else in need. Better yet maybe to tape my flops to my feet so I can run the bases in them!