Shoot (or Throw)—Don't Aim

Whether playing baseball or basketball, one of the first sports lessons kids are taught is the counterintuitive truth that focusing too much on aiming where you want for the ball to go is likely to backfire. You want to shoot, not aim, the basketball; you want to throw, not aim, the baseball—trusting that the proper mechanics will get the ball where it should go. This is something like Jesus’ paradoxical counsel that “those who want to save their…