golf

This is for those of you that enjoy golf. I have the privilege of playing 63 holes of golf in 48 hours this past weekend. You talk about being tired after a day of fun that will get you tired after a weekend. My Friday scores were not what I wanted them to be. They were, well, above my average and did not help my team win any pride in what we have deemed the pride cup golf outing. Golf is a game of focus and a game of keeping yours eyes on the little white thing flying through the air. The better you do that the better the day is. if you play golf or have seen golf played you know that many people start each hole with a drive as far out as they can get it and a swing as hard as they can swing. Sometimes the ball goes where you want and sometimes it does not go where you want. Let me tell you a little bit about what i did to stay focused and bring my round back around. For starters I will tell you on Friday I had a nine holes that added up to 64 strokes. (WOW that is a lot for a guy like me, but then again i got my monies worth and as a dutch man that is good it was not a lot of money per stroke to play that day. ) Saturday i had to get my focus back and I had to stay on track, I did not use my driver and I did use my 5 wood only one time. It was a day of the 5 iron to get my focus back, a day that I decided I would rather be straight and in the fairway playing a little white ball off some nice grass rather than becoming a ball hunter in the woods. So I hit 5 iron after 5 iron after 5 iron to get my way through the course. I made it with great improvement and great confidence being focus on my game and what i needed to do, not what other people were doing around me, because they were hitting drives of 250 yards and some over 300 yards and mine, lets just say I was there in 2. So did the focus pay off? i can say yes it did because that 64 i told you about earlier on Sunday that became a 45. What can focus do for you it can take your eyes and ideas from other people and put them on you and what you need and enjoy and even get a great score. My golf game was not an exciting game or a flamboyant game but it was a game that got the job done. Sometime we get too concerned about how we look to the people around us and forget what we need to do as and individual. I was who i needed to be and stayed focus on my game and it worked. So what about you what are things you do to please others and look good but may not be what you need to do and may not be the best thing for you? Focus on what you need, what you are called to, not what the person next to you does. Be focused be a Hubble!

Hubble telescope

So what do I and the Hubble telescope have in common? nothing at first but then as i have been going through life and figuring things out as i go i feel i have some things in common or maybe better stated want to have things in common with the Hubble. If you have not seen the Hubble's web site check it out,http://hubblesite.org/ the pictures on there are great and will give you a little glimpse into what is beyond what are eyes can see. Focus, yes, right focus is what this is all about. Amounts are different but I have heard that we have spent as much as 900million dollars on the Hubble telescope. One telescope and only one. Why do we spend so much money? Until this past year I thought it was a waste and a dumb use of the money that I pay in taxes. But maybe it is some of the best use of money we have done with our taxes. The Hubble has given us looks at space that we have never seen before, it has showed us stuff we never dreamed of, imagines that are beyond description and images that are great to look at and see God's creation. So what do I and what do you have in common with the Hubble. We need to become Hubbles of ourselves. You see some of us have a hard time focusing on life, some have a hard time focusing on school some just plain can't focus and have a label of ADD or ADHD. As I have discovered in life in the past three months the more focused our lives our the better we go through life. The more we enjoy life and the more we can get out of life. You know what I am talking about when you have been chasing from place to place and going here and going there and at the end of the day you get home and ask yourself what have I done today? What about life what I have Idone in life? the Hubble has one mission and one thing that it is suppose to do, it does it well. I believe God has created each one of us with a purpose and a mission, sometimes we go through life trying everything and nothing seems right. But when we find that right thing it clicks and you find meaning and purpose. So like the Hubble focus to give scenes to us what is you would focus on one thing on what God has called you to. what God has gifted you in and what if you did that? Let other people do things they are gifted in; and you do the thing you are gifted in how much value could you bring to the people around you? Could you give value like the Hubble gives value? Try it I dare you, iIam beginning to do it, beginning to say no to some things to be more focused to bring value to people around me. Be a Hubble.