The number 2 Lightenload story for 2022 based on readership is this personal story about getting through pain not only physically but in our walk with God!
Walking In Pain
May 9, 2022
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“My parents are amazing, they’ve taught me so many lessons” “I honestly can’t thank them enough for what they’ve done for me.” Aaron also thanks his birth mom for making a pro life decision. You see Aaron was adopted when he was just 2 days old. Wayne and Patty are his parents. They are school teachers and they are forever grateful that Aaron came into their lives! He has been a big hit in their family and made their family complete! Aaron also has an adopted brother. One day Aaron got to wondering why he and his brother didn’t look in the least bit like their parents so he asked them the question. He was probably 10 or 11 years old he remembered. That was when he first learned that they were adopted. Aaron was good with it. He was very happy with the parents he had and the life he was living. Aaron is actually biracial and his parents are white but that made little difference to Aaron once his curiosity was solved.
Aaron today is a devout Christian and he got grounded in his faith by his loving parents. He didn’t always like the rules but he later realized that their rules were for his good. Aaron loved to play sports but his parents were precise as to priorities. They would say “Hey, you’ve got homework to do. You’ve got to finish your math homework and your science homework. Then if you have time before dinner you can go play.” Aaron didn’t like the rules growing up but he is so grateful for the discipline they gave him. He has even given credit to his mom for the career that he has achieved. “The guidance she gave me as a kid growing up, knowing the difference from right and wrong, how to treat people and how to go the extra mile and put in extra work, all that kind of stuff,” he said at the time. “She’s molded me into the person that I am today.” That person happens to be a Major League baseball player for the New York Yankees. “If it wasn’t for my mom I wouldn’t be a New York Yankee”, he told MLB.com in 2017. Aaron’s parents Wayne and Patty Judge raised a fine young man in Aaron Judge.
Aaron grew to an enormously tall young man measuring 6 feet 7 inches. He is an extraordinary good fielder who can cover a lot of ground in his outfield position with a cannon of an arm. After the 2020 season he was rated the 4th best right fielder in the major leagues. He can play all three outfield positions and surprises people with how he can move his massive body! Although his work in the outfield is amazing it is his solid hitting that everyone is talking about.
In 1961 Roger Maris also a Yankee hit 61 home runs. He broke Babe Ruth’s total of 60 he hit in 1927. That was the most home runs hit in a single season in the American League until this season. All season Aaron Judge amazingly stayed on the pace of the Maris record. In the last game of the season Aaron’s total was 61 the same as Maris. With his proud parents in the stands cheering him at every turn Aaron launched number 62! That was one of the biggest hits in baseball history! The camera was on Aaron as he rounded the bases and was mobbed by the entire Yankee bench behind home plate. However the camera also kept flashing to his proud parents in the stands as they were hugging each other and jubilantly celebrating the accomplishment of their son!
As you can see Aaron was a big hit to his parents whether he played baseball or not. They would have been celebrating if he did something wonderful in another career or if he did nothing at all exceptional. They were happy because they loved him so much and only wished him the best. As wonderful as the story that Aaron Judge had and has in baseball there is another story here. A story that is even a bigger hit than Aaron’s 62nd homer! I keep thinking that with one different decision he would have just been a statistic called number of abortions. Shout out to all of the birth mothers who give birth to their babies and give them a chance to change the world! Shout out to Aaron Judges birth mother who’s decision to let him live has blessed countless numbers! She is the one who made Aaron Judge possible! There are so many people out there that would love to raise a little baby and Aaron Judge is more thankful for that statistic than any other!
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