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| Reliable Saints - by Jack Pitzer
| Reliable Saints
I was watching the sixth game of the world series, as the Cardinals came from behind (several times) and finally won in the 11th inning. During the game there were continual cam- eos' of Nolan Ryan who is part of the Texas Rangers operating staff. Even though I am partial to the St. Louis Cardinals I have always admired Nolan Ryan, not only because of his abilities, but also because of his reliability. Let me paint a picture of this reliable baseball player.
On May 1st 1991, Nolan Ryan, who was a starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers, got up and felt horrible. His back hurt, his heel on his foot hurt, his middle finger on his pitch- ing hand hurt, and he felt very old. He was taking a lot of Advil because of all his aches and pains, and he was the starting pitcher that night. He hurt all over, but all the best players play hurt, so he went out that night with the intent of getting the job done.
And get it done, he did. Not only that night, but for twenty-seven years he had been getting the job done. On May 1st, 1991, Nolan Ryan at the age of 44 pitched his seventh no hitter. He has never considered himself exceptional, but for 27 years he got the job done. He had 324 victories, over 5700 strike-outs, and 26 times he had 15 or more strike-outs in a game. He pitched 60 shut-outs, and besides his seven no hitters, 12 one hitters.
Nolan Ryan got the job done, and not only that, he had his moments of greatness as well. As I watched the game, with the cameos of Nolan Ryan, every so often, I was reminded of a quality that is a common denominator in any form of greatness - reliability. It is the bread and butter characteristic of achievement. It is the shared ingredient behind retirement pens, Hall of Fame awards in baseball and football, and golden anniversaries. It is the quality that produces monumental lives, and not flash in the pan heroics. Reliability.
RE -- LIABLE. The word liable means that you are responsible for something. It is usually used in a legal context. If someone is liable, they are responsible. "RE" in front of the word means over and over again. So the word reliable means a person is responsible over and over again. Responsible saints who are responsible over and over again for getting the job done.
So, I was just pondering all those reliable saints that have over the years, past, present, and future, who practice on Monday what they hear on Sunday. Reliable saints who spend selfless hours with kids, at computers, in committee meetings, on knees, in hospitals, away from families, at team meetings, Great Banquet weekends, choirs, youth groups, and even ministers who thought we weren't listening, but stubbornly continued sowing God's Word, which many of them probably never saw the fruit of their labor.
Thank you to all the Nolan Ryans of the church, those who bind the church together over the years and the centuries. Reliable saints, who deliver the goods, sleep on prison floors, or gyms or in Sunday school rooms and who go the extra mile without pampering or even a pat on the back. The key to all the reliable servants, the bindings of the church, is not the age at which they started, but that they are faithful , until the end.
Thank you to all the Nolan Ryans of Great Banquet movements over the past 20 years who get the job done.
See you sometime at a Great Banquet. . . . . Jack Pitzer
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