I spent Friday morning tooling around the Wachovia with both my wife Julie and my father-in-law Ted. It’s an annual tradition. Walking around Quail Hollow is a yearly exercise in seeing how the other half lives.
Some idle thoughts:
- No cell phones allowed. How cool is that? All 30,000 people were without their cell phones . . . and the world continued to rotate on its axis. Imagine that.
- Some golfers have fitness levels that wouldn’t really cut it on the pro tennis tour. Then there are others who definitely could. Check here.
- Watching golf live is so different from watching it on TV. When you watch it live, you can only pay attention to either one golfer or one hole at a time. It’s hard to get a grasp of the big picture; difficult to know who has momentum and inspiration. But when you watch it on TV, you see the whole story at once: you watch multiple holes, you can follow the hot hand, you can see who is struggling and/or choking, and you have the commentary to help make sense of it all.
- Then I realized: that (the difference between live golf and TV golf) is like the difference between being human and being God. We go through life focused on our small picture; God is engaged in it from the perspective of the Big Story. Think about it . . .
By the way: NUMB3RS. Tomorrow. 8:30, 10:00, and 11:30.
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Great “blog spot” Talbot! I’ll be sure to keep checking in throughout the week. I’ll also make sure my dad in Saudi Arabia knows to check it out, too. I download and email him your sermons off the website each week because the church site has been blocked in Riyadh. He was able to access the site the first couple of weeks he was there and then “magically” it was blocked. So, he should be able to enjoy this now too(hopefully)!
Nice post. Good to remember our perspective is hardly ever from the best vantage point.