In The Zone

MARCH 14 2026   In The Zone

March madness is upon us. I used to play basketball all the time with my friends when we were growing up. I remember how I would get in the zone and the baskets would fall with ease. Have you ever been in the zone? When whatever you were doing seemed easy and much more enjoyable? I have. There are moments when the light shines upon us and everything is a breeze. The words come effortlessly and the thoughts become untroubled and the things we do feel like we were born to do them and the people we're with feel like a long lost soulmate and everything is free and easy. We can witness this especially in sports sometimes, when those who make a living as professional athletes suddenly get in the flow and they perform at a higher level. It's almost magical to watch. I've seen it happen many times. A baseball player will have a game where he hits everything thrown at him. A basketball player will make almost every basket. A golfer will hit all his shots. And so on. It's like that in life sometimes too. I've had good days and bad days. But there was something about being a child that made life seem easy. I've spent my entire adult life trying to capture or recapture that feeling I had as a child. It's not easy to describe and it's not easy to explain just what made those years seem amazing. I just know I was happy, and most every single day was a good day. Since I became less than that person, it seems like every day is a struggle or a challenge or has it's ups and downs but I can honestly say I've only had a few days where I felt like the world was all right. I know the moment everything changed for me. It was the day I discovered what the birds and the bees were all about. I was in 6th grade and after this discovery I spent each and every day longing for something that has only been satisfied on rare occasions. Once you have knowledge of a certain kind there's no going back. There's no erasing the effect of that knowledge. It's like once you learn to tie your shoe. Has anyone ever forgotten how to tie their shoe? I mean barring brain damage I don't think so. What I see as one of the greatest evils in the world today is that children are exposed to so much they're not allowed to be an innocent child anymore. Yes I was 12 years old, which isn't very old really, but at least I had 12 years. I mean it hadn't been very long before I discovered where babies came from, that I still believed in the man in the red suit. Ho ho ho. But there's a world coming where our minds shall be renewed in the image of him who made us. We will forget all the cares of this body, of this flesh and we will become like the angels. And I won't have to work and I won't have to worry and I will be a child again. Forever young. Forever free. I'll be in the zone.