The Dawn Treader

It was the summer of 1999.  The time for the U.S. Open had finally arrived.  The site that year was Pinehurst, North Carolina, a short distance from where I was living.  I had access to a house in Pinehurst, so I signed up to be a volunteer.  I was hoping to work on the golf course … perhaps as a marshall or a sign bearer or a driving range attendant… something that would get me close to the action.

My assignment? 

I have been in the music city all week.  Here is how life appears from the second floor of the Hampton Inn in Antioch.  I-24 is bristling with Friday morning traffic.  Nashville is a beautiful place.  I would not mind living here.

Well, off to the airport to catch a flight back to Roanoke.

My oldest son's first golf hole ever.  Con sliced it off the tee.  Followed up with a nice recovery seven iron to the fringe.  Texas wedge [putter] ... followed by a putt - putt - putt -putt -putt and IN THE HOLE!

Not to be outdone, my youngest son Jess played a nice driver on the next hole.  Followed, by another fairway driver.  Then a chip.  Then a putt - putt - putt - putt and IN THE HOLE!

Life is good.

UPDATE: David Opderbeck has a post called Another Reason Life Is Like Golf   David points out the need for spiritual mentoring, one of my favorite topics.  Also, David opines on How Life Is Like Golf.

I also reposted one of my old blog posts which uses compares apologetics to golf.

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Woody Allen is in the news again. He recently granted an interview and gave some priceless quotes in the process.  I once heard Dr. Ken Boa say that he is going to write a book on the theology of Woody Allen.  I hope he was not kidding.  Woody Allen is refreshingly honest when it comes to the practical reality of his worldview.  It is rarer than rare to find someone with the honesty to say it like it really is ... even if it is depressing.

This breakpoint article by Chuck Colson underscores the practical side of philosophy and worldviews.  Those of you who think that philosophy is for guys at Starbucks with goatees, guess again.  Philosophy, which I use almost synonymously with the term worldview, is all around us.  We breathe it in every day in the form of culture.

Colson writes,

    The great Christian thinker Francis Schaeffer once wrote that philosophy—often dismissed as irrelevant—is, in reality, a powerful engine that drives cultural change. Ivory Tower ideas filter down into popular culture, including films. There, they influence millions who often have no notion of what they’re consuming along with the car chases, love scenes, and popcorn.