“Coach, I read your book!” a little voice calls out to me during water break at practice.
I’m caught off-guard.
“You read my book!?” I answer back surprised. “Where’d you find that?”
“In the library,” he answers simple.
“At your school?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, that is cool!”
I can’t help but smile.
A couple other coaches ask, “You wrote a book?”
“Yeah, few years ago.”
I expected it to be forgotten, one of those on a shelf—if a copy is to make it that far—and forgotten.
But it was checked out—even read—by a ten-year old who is friend to my son and I.
Not even trying, he made my day; and I cannot help but smile.
Life surprises. Little things come back around, and the affirmations we speak out return to us in time.
Life surprises. Enjoy when it does.