Super Duper Rubber Ball

Did you ever have one of those little rubber balls as a kid? The indestructible kind that came in a bright swirl of color? It was hard and compact and it could bounce for days. And boy, could those little balls bounce.

I had them. All kids did. I usually lost mine pretty quickly. It would start bouncing and then just bounce and roll out of sight – generally under the refrigerator into no-man’s-land – lost forever. I also lost several on our roof. I recall a time trying to see if I could get mine to bounce higher than our two-story house.

I threw the ball hard against the driveway in an effort to make it bounce skyward. I recall my first several efforts were not successful in getting past the second story window. Then with all the strength my young little arms could muster I crashed that ball into the ground and in turn it was lofted skyward higher than ever.

That little ball flew past the second story, past the gutter and as near as I could tell from my earthly perch it soared above the entire roof line. Unfortunately, I didn’t throw it directly down so the ball didn’t return to me, it kept on soaring. When it came down somewhere on the other side of the house it joined the Frisbee and other paraphernalia stuck on the roof. Didn’t matter though, mission accomplished.

When I think about it now I find it interesting. To get that little rubber ball to accomplish the task I had set out for it, to get it to soar and fly as far I as I could make it, first I had throw it down against the ground as hard as I could. When I didn’t throw the ball down very hard, its bounce back up was not very great. But the harder the fall the greater the ball’s rise.

If it works this way with rubber balls, I wonder what else it works with? Jesus was a kid once, you think He and His Father know about these little balls?
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