In reading today I was reminded of an old commercial Michael Jordan narrated:
“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I have been trusted to take the game-winning shot…and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my live. And that is why I succeed.”
It occurred to me that this sounds a lot like Romans 5:3-5: “More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
Nearly two-thousand years, the same message, whether Jordan or Paul. We fail, we suffer, we keep trying. That last part, the “keep trying” part, is the important part. Well that and the fact that sometimes, at least every once and a while, we succeed. Sometimes, yes, sometimes, we succeed. Sounds a whole lot like golf – and life.
It occurs to me... 