God Cares About You Allow me to tell you about a young man who had a very bad day. He was a good kid, went to church, and was very involved in his youth group. He was well-liked at school, got good grades, and didn’t get into any trouble. He was always willing to share and help people. He even volunteered every summer at a camp for people with special needs and handicaps. This was a good kid. He played baseball every year since he was 5 years old, and he played on his school team for 3 year s. But then came the day when he didn’t get to play at all until he was finally brought in to pitch to the last batter to close the game. Afterwards his coach told him why he wasn’t getting to play much. This nice kid had missed a couple of games so he could go to a weekend youth rally with the rest of his church youth group. And he was also going to miss a game to go visit the college he was going to be attending later that fall. And because of that, his coach decided he must not b...
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