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IMPOSSIBLE

Overwhelming seems too weak a word for the odds the Red Sox faced. For one, the Boston Red Sox were playing against the 26-time World Champion New York Yankees. That in itself is daunting, but the odds of coming back in a best of seven series after losing the first three games were insurmountable. Before the 2004 postseason, there have been 100 Major League Baseball postseasons. In 100 years there have been 136 best of seven playoffs, none of them were won by a team that lost the first three games.

Games four and five were extra-inning slugfests, won in heroic fashion by the Bo Sox. Red Sox Manager Terry Francona sent Curt Schilling to the mound for game six with sutured tendons in his ankle. Throughout the game his sock became redder as he bled from his injury. Could the team win with a gimpy pitcher on the mound and a bull pen that was worn-out from the last two extra-inning games? Schilling, the 21-game winner from Anchorage, Alaska pitched a brilliant game, which forced a game seven on the big stage at Yankee Stadium.

In game seven, Francona gave the ball to Derek Lowe on two days rest, less than half the time a pitcher usually has. But you couldn't tell it by the way the hurled the ball. Lowe kept the Yankees to only one run in six innings and set the stage for a 10-3 victory, propelling the Red Sox into the World Series. If they win, it will be their first world championship since 1918.

—http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2004/columns/story?columnist=caple_jim&id=1906383 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson

The impossible sometimes happens, even when the odds are overwhelming.

Romans 8:31 (NASB) "If God is for us, who is against us?"

IMPOSSIBLE

A software developer in India is looking to hire a developer with a minimum 12+ years’ experience in Kubernetes administration and management.” There is a problem though. Google developed and released the Kubernetes software program in 2014. In other words, the software has only existed for half the number of years that the job opening requires in experience with the software. 

World, August 15, 2020, p. 18

Not even God could give a person 12-years of experience on software that has only existed for 6 years. Some things are just impossible. But of things that matter, God could handle it. — Jim Wilson and Rodger Russell

Matthew 19:26 (CSB)

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”