Wisdom comes from all sorts of places. I like to learn things as I go. Sometimes learning and wisdom comes from the golf course. Now, before you scoff and say something under your breath about how I am just looking for any opportunity to play, hear me out. Consider these gems from one of the games teaching gurus, Harvey Penick. These are excerpts taken from one of his books, The Little Red Book. After each one I will attempt to make a point about life; about our lives lived for God.
“The golf swing is one swing but is made up of little things all working together.”
- This sounds an awful lot like Ephesians 4:16 or 1 Cor. 12; one thing – church - made up of a lot of parts, as Paul says, “… as each part does its work.”
“The important question is not how good your good shots are – it’s how bad your bad ones are?
- Sometimes our bad mistakes can cost us far more than good things done can help us. We cannot just balance them item for item, the good and the bad. Sometime the bad are really bad. A one step forward and two steps back sort of idea.
“Be honest with yourself. What you find out in six months of practice, your pro can tell you in five minutes.”
- It’s always a good thing to humble ourselves and admit we need help. That can involve anything from asking for directions to needing help with a golf swing to owning up to a depression problem. “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Proverbs 3:34
Any more golf/life wisdom out there?
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