Whatever is... admirable

I realize that applying the counsel of Philippians 4:8-9 is a worthy personal guideline.  Rather than simply allowing media to dictate what I notice around me and in my world, how very different and potentially uplifting is it to focus on:

... whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.  Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

In the spirit of that advice this week I choose to acknowledge not merely the outstanding record that my (the boyhood in me surfacing) Dodgers are achieving in Major League baseball.  While that is admirable in the world of professional baseball, I will emphasize rather a quieter though very worthy-of-mention action.

I acknowledge and celebrate in the spirit of the Philippians suggestion above Mr. Grant Rhode, the State Farm Insurance agent who handled my claim after the June 5 auto accident.  That incident in which our CRV was "totaled" prompted me to insure that I suffered no injury with a 12 hour visit in Duke Hospital's emergency arena.  Rhode conducted my matter with diligence, promptness, a caring attitude and efficiency.  He never sought to reduce my claim; in fact, in the end he offered more personal compensation ("for pain and suffering") than I even mentioned.

He gets my "shout out", therefore as a marvelous example of the true, noble, right, and admirable or praiseworthy practice the Apostle seeks to promote.