Making the Adjustment

Here is an excerpt from my latest book titled “Picking up the Pieces”

When a person finally comes to realize that they can pick up the pieces in their lives, one must also understand that there has to be adjustments made in our thinking, actions, and decisions.

I have done some coaching on my son’s baseball team. I would usually coach the pitchers. If anyone understands anything about pitching, the objective is to get the ball within a strike zone and locating it either left, right, inside, outside, high, or low. Using these different locations would help throw the batter off making it more difficult to hit the ball. However, the pitcher would not always be successful in putting the ball where he wanted it to go. When this happens on three or more pitches in a row I would often say make the adjustment, which meant he would have to get back to the fundamentals of pitching: maintaining balance, landing your foot on the proper line, releasing the ball, and following through. When applying to what has been previously taught one can then get themselves back on track mentally, and fundamentally. I think that in our lives this is also true. Most of us know how things are suppose to work and what we should do, etc. But somewhere in the middle of the season in our lives on the playing field in our game we have a tendency to forget the basic fundamentals, and because of this our focus has become blurred by all of the missed pitches and we just can’t seem to get the ball back where it needs to go.

When this happens, it means that we need to make an adjustment. The most important adjustment that we have to make is concerning our relationship with God.

Since God is interested in our lives, he also wants to make sure that he is a part of your life. Our success can only happen when we include God in all that we do and we include ourselves in all he has for us. This has to be a joint effort. We cannot do anything without him.

I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.
John 15:5, AMP