September 11, 2000

DOWN HOME:
Season tickets, logistical
headaches & God's grace
___Logistics sometimes can be a nightmare. Like figuring out where to sit at football games.
___The location of football seats is a big deal around our house. Not because of the game, of course, but because of halftime.
___Our seats, the same ones we've claimed for three years, look down on the south 35

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yard line of Max Goldsmith Stadium in Lewisville.
___They're good seats for watching Fighting Farmers football. Not great, but then again we haven't lived here all our lives. But they're good--high enough and close enough to the 50 yard line to see the game pretty well.
___For the past two seasons, however, they've been excellent seats. They look down on the south 35 yard line, which is about where Lindsay has lined up for thrilling performances (I kid you not) of the Farmerettes, Lewisville High School's drill team.
___Now the situation has changed. This year, Lindsay is an officer, which is great. But she leads the shorter girls' squad on the north--read that opposite--end of the drill line. So, logistics produced a mini-crisis for Joanna and me. Should we try to buy tickets farther north, closer to Lindsay and her squad? That's a risky proposition.
___See, you can buy your old tickets ahead of the open-purchasing date, ensuring your hard-won location from last year. But if you want to move to a better spot, you've got to go down on the open-purchasing date and see what's available. And you could wind up with worse seats than what you had already.
___If you think this sounds simple, then you've never wrangled for better season tickets in a Texas high school football stadium. Or you've never been a parent with tickets on the "wrong" side of the 50 yard line.
___In the end, we played it safe. We've got binoculars, and we've got pretty good seats. Besides, some folks--hard as it is to believe--actually leave the stands at halftime. If worse comes to worse, Jo figures, we can scoot down and sit where some of the halftime break-takers sit during the rest of the game. Ta-da! Logistics made easy.
___All this logistical languishing reminds me how uneasily I often rest in God's grace.
___I don't know about you, but it sometimes seems like I've spent half my life worrying about how tomorrow is going to turn out--where I'll be, what I'll be doing. But the Lord told us not to worry about tomorrow, because that's God's concern, not ours. If God knows the needs of the sparrows and the lilies, then God knows what we really need. And if God loves the sparrows and lilies, how much more does God love and care for us? That's grace. Don't worry; be happy.
___And tickets on the south 35 yard line are just fine, thank you.
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