An Acceptable Batting Average?

Okay, I’m no “sports enthusiast” (the quotation marks signify my somewhat snide observation that people, who are called sports enthusiasts, mainly participate by swigging beer on a Lay-Z-Boy), but just following popular culture has introduced me to the subject of batting averages. Furthermore, I am not all too fond of sports analogies, partly because I regard sports trivial at best, and a vehicle of chauvinistic provincialism and xenophobia at worst, partly because they tend to be too simplistic. On the other hand, their simplicity is what makes them useful. So there you are.

Graceful Faith, Willful Works

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My wife and I have 5 kids. Our daughter (one of them, not the one who has a 5-month-old son) is serving a mission in England now and despite being busy she writes faithfully enough. As she was growing up, we would have discussions around the dinner table during long dinners, family home evenings and any other time the family was together. We talked about everything. So it’s natural that she’s telling us about things.