Performing under pressure

My friend Ray has a fine senior golf game, I can't stay in the game with him.

Kyle Stanleys one week turn around from total last round collapse to winner underscores the mental aspects of performing well, like one announcer said, the worst thing a young player can have is a six stroke lead on the final day, too much to protect.

Eli Manning did the same thing during the Super Bowl.

I hit it long and straight on the practice green but something misfires in the brain when taken to the course. It was something to watch both those victories.

And the Winner is!!!

I always feel like a winner with my grands and Disneyland.

I am loving the fourth round of the Phoenix Open, young guy trying to win his first, guy who choked last week trying for quick redemption.

I am for the Giants in this years super bowl because I have a son who lives there, and Eli is a Mississippi Boy who still maintains a home there. Such is the twisted logic and heart of a man who realizes that a couple of years from now no one will remember except the die hard fans. I bought some hot wings which will make it happen with celebration.

I believe God Wins, all the time.

Comprehending Grace

This month to prepare for spring and Easter I have decided to focus on God's grace and our need to be gracious to others. It's a hot potato issue and should not be, because it is so central to the new covenant proclamation. Perhaps because it is so important we tend to lose the reality of walking and living in Grace. Because we are living in a world of tensions and differing views it is just plain easier to see people as good or bad, friend or foe, deserving of grace or wrath.

Behind it all is a worldview that asks the biggest kind of Question. Is God gracious?
For if He is not we are all in trouble. But I wonder how our lack of comprehension of the scandalous idea of "unmerited favor" really hurts our enjoyment of life and our ability to function graciously.

No Desire

So if this is a 10 story building under construction just how tall is that crane.

Sometimes I just feel like going home, and that is what I did after a breakfast, a visit to Van's Golf Shop, and a stop at Whole Foods.

On the way home I tried again to share the enormity of the crane that is being used at the Intel plant. This is the place Obama gave a speech from last week, and bussed in democrats to cheer him on.

Check back later

I rose up early to cross town to breakfast with a friend. A non golf day off. I have my camera and will post later today.

Resurrection, Time, Universe

We saw on Video a fine sermon with pictures from Hubble on the immensity of light years and the universe and our place in the Milky Way. He made a comment that struck me about God saying "Let there be Light" that it exploded from His mouth going 186,500 miles an hour, which is the speed of light.

I have been gently hammering at the idea that if Jesus has a resurrection body, then it may have qualities that are spiritual, obviously, but it also has qualities that are physical. If a physical object moves from point A to point B, then it has by definition taken "Time". It seems logical to me then, that if our future contains a resurrection, then it proceeds from eon to eon, from age to age, and is not, therefore, "when time shall be no more".

I share this and it seems as though no one has an "ah ha!" moment. So much for human logic and reasoning when standing against human tradition.

A big band width Oops!!

I have no idea how this snapshot took place, must have been a mistake, which we all make. This post is the story of another mistake.

We have a small group practicing introductory Spanish to help when they go on the Amor ministry shelter build next month. I have been using a free preview of an online spanish teaching program and decided to purchase and download it for last night.

I had no idea it was so large and it completely consumed the last gig and a half of my band width in 20 minutes. A big boo boo.

Internet access in our world is amazing, and now that is it so successful, many, including the government will try to make it more expensive.

This program is amazing, cheaper than the one they sell in the stores, and it teaches nouns by building on key verbs like , go, need, want, to help you get a flow to the language. Can an old dog learn new tricks??? You betcha!!!!! Hola, como uste usted?