It's no big news that the Hamiks LOVELOVELOVE baseball. We love the game, the community and the spring season which kicks off the baseball season. Something we love just as much are baseball players. Our family has a fondness for high school kids and combine teens and baseball and look out...we want to hang out with you! Josh has a love for Ashland High School baseball and the boys on the team. He volunteers his time coaching clinics, camps, teams and one-on-one instruction. But the best part, is the one-on-one (or 5 when they come to our home) that he gets to have mentoring a few of the boys. It is such an honor and blessing to our family to have these players in our home often feeding them, playing with them and seeing how their "cool guy" guards come down as we dig into their "world" and encourage them to seek the truth and push the fluff and drama aside. It's awesome to watch them transform into moldable, teachable and transparent young men. Their "world" isn't that different from ours back in high school and Josh can totally relate to who they are in their school as athletes...amongst other traits I won't delve into. These are two brothers we adore who have become big brothers to our kids and little bros. to Josh...I just feed them and drill into them, "Stay away from cleat chasing girls during the season...they'll mess with your head." I should know, I was one of them and then I snagged me some cleats! ;)
So my encouragement for the day is to know what you love and use it as a vehicle to love on others. As you can see with Charlie and Josh, there's lots of MAN LOVE going around... :)
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