Super balls, the toy, not the lottery game were always fascinating to me. If you were in a gym or parking lot, it didn’t take much effort on one bounce to get a super ball to reach 50 feet high. The rubber inside was perfectly designed to vault into the air, springing up and down for several seconds. If only human beings could bounce back as quick as these specially designed balls.
The term bounce can either be a noun or verb depending upon your use. Webster uses a noun when referencing jumping, moving up and down or rebounding an object that has taken a bad bounce. Meanwhile, a verb is the actually act like bouncing a basketball or rebounding from a fall. The greatest Olympic example of this is a ski jumper who falls at the end of the ramp, wiping out, falling end over end down a steep hill, crashing and sliding into several different objects along the way. ABC Sports titled this moment, “the Agony of Defeat,” replaying it each week as a promotional for The Wide World of Sports.
If my kids could have created a video of my 5 second fall during my tubing accident, I might have over 1 million hits on my you tube channel. However, my initial concern is trying to swallow my pride, get healthy and make a quick recovery. I am more embarrassed than anything, kicking myself for wasting my personal time from work during this 2 week period. Despite everything that happened, I still have my life, the ability to walk and my breathing improves daily. If you’re feeling down today, use the prayer in Colossians 3:23 to bounce back as you rebound from a fall in life.
by Jay Mankus
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