Darryl Strawberry

Debbie Bickings teaches in a group at St. Andrew's lutheran and Darryl Strawberry was their speaker last night.  About 200 people showed up for speech and food and a kick-off Fall session.   He was wonderful and spoke the word saying that making mistakes does not make a person a mistake.   And he identified with all those there who have fallen from grace and risen again to stand and make a stab at living.

It is not easy to find the strength to rise again.  I admire him for his courage.   Debbie has told me so much about the people who attend these sessions regularly.  They will never know what it was to be on top --most of them are struggling to keep from winding up where they started and consistently stayed --at the bottom of the heap.   But they face the same struggles wherever they started and that is to find a strength that keeps them keeping on.

I wish others had found something this week to hold on to.  And I'm glad Darryl Strawberry did.