who knows what tomorrow brings?

trying to extend my thoughts on many things using a clean slate of mind that i have early on in the morning before it gets crowded out with activities and i start to think not-so-sane...

golf. addictive and it taught me to focus and reflect on my thoughts...

many times, life is like golf. you hit bad shots quite a lot of the time and for a small part of it you hit some good shots. there are some atrocious misses and hits but you got to move on anyway... the people behind you waiting impatiently for their turns are like the people on this earth... no one's giving you all the time in the world to work with... everyone's harsh with you... no one's going to waste their precious time waiting for you to clear up and work things out... they want you either going correctly with the flow or out you go...

and shots. bad shots make you keep reminising those ugly moments, like the uglier moments in your life.. so when you need to get back on track after an ugly shot... negative thoughts hound u like some disease.. "are you sure you can do this? you failed the other time!" "don't even think about it, even professionals don't do that good" and lots of other thoughts... which i shan't pause to mention much about for now...

yet you should be getting into a good state of mind to take every shot, be it from the bunker, near the bushes, after dropping two shots as penalty, etc... how to????

you try to eliminate those horrible thoughts but they keep coming back... that's when your playing buddy comes in to encourage you and keep you going... so you realise that a good and encouraging playing buddy is by far a much wiser choice than having someone who's good but gives a hurricane of instructions for you to play their way of game and gives hard looks every time it doesn't go their way...

hey it's your game... not theirs'... why bother with their comments? because listening to advice is a characteristic of a wise man... not heeding every advice of course... that would be suicide.

and you try to keep your eyes on that flag... though small and not seen much at times... yet you feel intuition to keep the shot at range... but God wants you to have the holy spirit's guidance... to "feel" the shot... to keep going... to trust his intuition... his instructions...

changing clubs is likened to changing the tools you have in life to approach every situation... no one person has the same driving range and no one person can hit exact same shots to an exact area as you... though you might not be polished in using certain clubs... it's ok... God leads...

:)

at the end... my goodness... you could have played a fantastic game yourself all on your own, but without a person beside you to celebrate it... what meaning does that take?

yet if you played fantastically but your buddy there is down, wouldn't you go and comfort and lessen his/her loss? wouldn't you want to be comforted after a bad round?

that's when the community comes in...

5 purposes:

Worship: In everything you do, it's a worship unto him
(everything you do is part of the golf game of life)

Fellowship:
(taste the joy of having encouragers and being an encourager in life)

Discipleship:
(to improve you have got to have a coach! or alternatively teach someone else when you're brilliant at it... could fine tune some finer points in life)

Ministry:
(filling up divots for others? a service.)

Evangelism:
(you can always take this whole description of what i have just shared to start sharing on the gospel isn't it?)

*God made life beautiful and people creative. don't limit your thoughts*

*smile*