Cricket

My team 🙂 

By: Gabriela Yareliz

Reporting on Cricket has been so much fun. Every Tues./Thurs. it makes my day. I am usually tired, hungry and cold by the time practice begins, but it is always a blast. I am starting to understand what the team’s Hindi means without knowing Hindi. And I think we’ve made a connection where they know I am there to stay, and I am a fan.

I like sports reporting because you can establish relationships with your sources, who are the players. You become friends, and you end up spending a lot of time together.  It is a fantastic thing.

Now, at practice they are playing in teams, and I am still, slowly, learning how the game works but youtube has been my friend. They’ve always helped me by explaining things to me.

This week has gone well, despite my looming deadlines and sources that I am stalking for other pieces. I was admitted into another law school yesterday, I’ve gotten some important things done, and my brothers have been doing well in school. What more can I ask for?

Sometimes, (I’ll admit) I feel “unlucky.” I think even murderers have less problems than me sometimes, but then I remember the people I’ve seen at the hospital. Young people with cancer, people who are alone… then I remember how blessed I am. Life is like that and we often don’t realize what we have, until we realize others are in pain or unfortunately have less. Or until it’s gone.

This reminds me of two things:

1] In Cricket the ball is hard. Super hard. catching it or even having it hit you leads to a sting in your hands from the impact and its hardness. Life throws you cricket balls, and when you catch them and it hurts. But sometimes catching them leads to victory. There is so much more beyond the pain.

2] Romans 8:28

²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

I hope you have a wonderful day, and if the cricket ball is thrown your way- catch it.