WHO ARE YOU?
Its Saturday morning early March in the year
1975, and Old Dominion University and Virginia Tech University are preparing to
do battle on the baseball diamond… As a nineteen-year old freshman pitcher for
Old Dominion, I expected to spend the day trying to stay warm in the dugout,
when all of a sudden it started to very lightly snow… Being from Massachusetts,
I was the only player on the team north of the Mason Dixon line… Then I heard
coach Methaney a former New York Yankee call out my name, Remington go warm up
you’re our starting pitcher today… Who me coach, I replied, then he took me
aside where no one else could hear and said, ‘“are you a man or a mouse”?
The coached figured in this cold weather, I
was the right man for the job… Well the coach was right, that day in March
thirty nine years ago my name went into the record books, because I threw a
no-hitter against the guys from Tech… Well that day if I was a mouse I was a
mighty one for it would be the only no-hitter I would pitch in my college
career… I still remember today those words, are you a man or a mouse, who are
you?
Each day our circumstances test us with the
question of who are we? My journey with God these many years has taught me I am
who God says I am... The Coach no longer throws no hitters and frustrates
batters away from the plate... God has used me to teach thousands of frustrated
dieters to come back to their diner plates of right foods, right amounts and at
right times, but most of all God has taught me who I am, though the eyes of the
GREAT I AM…