Sometimes it’s useful to remind ourselves that the impossible does happen from time to time.

On Friday, the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team punched their ticket to the World Series with Japanese-born Shohei Ohtani striking out ten batters in six scoreless innings AND hitting three home runs.

In baseball history, 503 players have hit three home runs in a game, and 1,550 have struck out 10 or more in a game. None, until Friday, had done both. Jeff Passan, ESPN, October 18, 2025

On Sunday, the Denver Broncos NFL team entered the fourth quarter down 19 – 0 to the New York Giants. Two touchdowns later, one by each team, both on deflected passes, the Broncos were down 26 – 8 with 6:38 left in the game. The Broncos’ win probability, a number that is updated continually throughout a game, was 0.7% at that time.

The Broncos won the game 33 – 32 on a last-second field goal.

The Broncos’ improbable comeback snapped a streak in which NFL teams had won 1,602 consecutive games when leading by 18 points in the final 6 minutes of a game. – AP, October 19, 2025

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.

This is a variant of:

If it is simply difficult, it is done. If it is impossible, it shall be done. (See Quote Investigator for the history and application of this maxim.)

Not one promise from God is empty of power, for nothing is impossible with God! (The Angel Gabriel to Mary as recorded in Luke 1.37, Passion Translation)