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Getting Up Each Time We Fall

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Coordination was hard for one of

my sons because he was born with

some physical challenges, and I felt

activity would be good for him. I

began to coach a softball team so he

could play, and when another small

boy, Timmy, who had similar

problems, started hanging around at

our practices, I talked Timmy’s

reluctant father into letting him play.

I watched as my son and Timmy

tried, but stumbled and fell time and

time again. And when they tried to

bat, the ball was long past before they