What type of "risky" venture has proved most rewarding in your life?
• Devoting your vacation time to missions or service
• Quitting a secure job to pursue what you love doing
• Volunteering for community service
• Taking a public stand on a controversial issue
• Teaching a children's Sunday school class
• Agreeing to receive marital counseling
• Using a chunk of your savings for a kingdom cause
• Adopting an unwanted child
• Coaching a community sports team
• Going back to school to train for a new occupation
• Opening your home to serve as a youth hangout
• Competing in a performance event
• Becoming mutually accountable with another man
• Running for elective office
• Sponsoring a refugee family
• Volunteering for a leadership role in you church
• Other
Tonight Show Doxology Theme of the Week: Praise the Lord! Tuesday, November 19, 2002
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November/December 200256Tonight Show DoxologyTheme of the Week: Praise the Lord! Tonight Show Doxology Theme of the Week: Praise the Lord! Tuesday, November 19
Key Bible Verse: Unseal my lips, O Lord, that I may praise you (Psalm 51:15). Bonus Reading:Psalm 63:2–8
After the final game of the 1988 World Series against the Oakland A's, Bob Costas of NBC interviewed me in the locker room. He asked what I was doing between innings when the cameras had caught me in the dugout with my head back, "eyes closed, almost meditating."
"I was singing hymns to myself to relax and keep my adrenalin down, because every time I thought about being ahead, I got too excited to pitch."
The next night I was a guest on "The Tonight Show." Johnny Carson also asked about that. "Do you just hum, or what?"
"I sing." The audience clapped and cheered. I hadn't meant that! "I'm not gonna sing!" They roared.
"Oh, yes you are!" Carson said. I shook my head, panicking. I'd never sung alone in public in my life. "This could be a first," he pressed. "Just a couple of bars."
"Well, the one I remember singing the most was a praise hymn." (Suddenly it was deathly silent.) "As I sat on the bench I'd sing: Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise Him, all creatures here below. Praise Him above, ye heavenly host. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen."
—Orel Hershiser in Out of the Blue
My Response: How do I "center down" when I'm feeling stressed?
Thought to Apply: He who does not praise God while here on earth shall in eternity be dumb. —Jan Van Ruysbroeck (14th century)
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