I Had to Share This...

You know the semester is winding down when I started posting inane items more often. A few weeks ago, Summer had a dentist appointment and I went with her to watch the little boys. On the way we tuned into NPR and caught the tail end of the Writer's Almanac, one of my daily podcast fixes. The poem for the day was baseball-themed (Pat later emailed the link to Summer, who sent it on to me). At the risk of copyright infringement, here is the text of the poem:
Poem: "Assignment #1: Write a poem about Baseball and God" by Philip E. Burnham, Jr. from Housekeeping: Poems Out of the Ordinary. © Ibbetson Street Press, 2005.
"Assignment #1: Write a poem about Baseball and God"

And on the ninth day, God
In His infinite playfulness
Grass green grass, sky blue sky,
Separated the infield from the outfield,
Formed a skin of clay,
Assigned bases of safety
On cardinal points of the compass
Circling the mountain of deliverance,
Fashioned a wandering moon
From a horse, a string and a gum tree,
Tempered weapons of ash,
Made gloves from the golden skin of sacrificial bulls,
Set stars alight in the Milky Way,
Divided the descendants of Cain and Abel into contenders,
Declared time out, time in, stepped back,
And thundered over all of creation:
"Play ball!"

A theology centered around baseball sounds pretty good to me...