Officially today my golf season is over! I didn't get as many games in this year as I wanted but the games I did play I was pleased with. I am just an average golfer and likely that is dictated by how much money I am unwilling to pay for this sport.
I think my clubs are 10 years old and yet still serve me well. The only new club is my driver and this year I got to know my driver pretty well.
When you are on the course you are surrounded by God's beauty. The green fairways roll out in front of you. At the end of the fairway you are taunted by the flag you are to aim for. As you walk up to the tee box you are confident you have this holes number. This hole will be the best hole of the day. So you very carefully choose where to put your tee in the tee box. You line up your club in a straight line to the flag that continues to taunt you. You square your feet to your shoulders and make sure your shoulders are square to the flag. You may even shift your weight a few times to find that comfortable perfect spot. All around you is complete silence; you slowly bring your driver back behind you and all the while keeping your eye on the ball. As you bring you driver forward with a smooth yet forceful swing you connect square on the round golf ball and you hear 'ping'; that is the sound of a great shot. You continue to keep your eye on the ball and you admire as it goes straight down the fairway. Now this is where the outcome changes for everyone. Going straight down the fairway can mean it went 20 yards and is barely off the tee box, or it means it went 100 yards and skimmed along the ground the whole way. OR it can mean your ball arched beautifully just like the pros and when the ball finally comes to a complete stop your drive is 100 yards short of the green. I like to think my tee shots are like the latter but I have my fair share of 50 yard drives that barely get off the ground.
I love to golf with friends. There is no competition between us (but I know silently in the background it lurks). Besides a little competition is a good thing.
So as I moved my golf bag from the trunk of my car to storage I am careful to count the clubs to make sure none are lost, check to see if my glove is in the bag (I lost 2 gloves last year), remove all the candy wrappers and empty water bottles. I carefully put the golf bag in storage all ready to be pulled out at the first of the season in 2008.
My last game this year was the one I enjoyed the most. I golfed with my friend Deb, just her and I, no one else. Our skill is similar to each other however I always feel I am 2 or 3 strokes behind her. Look out Deb next year I will catch up to you.
A perfect end to my thanksgiving weekend was a great golf game with a dear friend and later tonight a turkey dinner with more friends.
I am truly blessed.
Monday, October 8, 2007
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Deep Thoughts
Do you ever wonder why you were born? I know that is a huge question but seriously have you given it some thought?
Some were born to discover cures for disease; some born to be doctors, nurses or dentists; some were born to fight in the wars; some were born to be in politics and lead our nation; some born to be pastors/ministers; some were born to be missionaries; some born to be blue color workers and some have been born to never work at all.
Do you ever wonder what God was thinking when he created a new life that would be missing a leg when born, or deaf when born or maybe even blind at birth. What about the child born with downs syndrome or the child who carries a cancer gene and will not live past childhood.
How do these people play a part in our world as we know it? How do these people play a part in your life as you know it?
I heard a story today that has obviously caused me some deep thinking. Let me share this story with you; I am curious of your reaction.
There was a lady and her daughter living in a poor country and the daughter was very ill and she needed surgery to survive. Other then her daughter, two chickens and an angora rabbit she had nothing. On a regular basis the rabbit was groomed for the wool to make clothes and blankets and all they had to eat was the eggs provided by these two chickens.
A doctor was visiting the town she lived in and she knew she had to get her daughter to this man. After the doctor saw her daughter he agreed to perform the surgery that she needed at no cost. To show her appreciation she invited the doctor to her house for dinner. He knew she had nothing and did not want her to go out of her way but he also knew the right thing to do was to go to her home. So the next evening he went to her home and as he looked in the pot to see what she was cooking he saw the rabbit and two chickens. This women knew the true meaning of gratitude! She gave all she had in thanksgiving. When was the last time you gave all you had in thanksgiving?
Who knew that over their life time these three people would have been brought together. And who knew that this ladies selfless act would leave such an impact on this doctors life. Is that why they were born?
I know in my life there have been people who have left there mark. And I choose to believe I have left my mark in a few peoples lives as well.
At times I wonder why I was born. I have finally learned that God has a plan for my life. I don't know fully what that plan is I can only speculate. I wonder why at my age certain things have not happened to me and then in the same breath wonder why so many things have happened to me and have filled my life.
Do you know why you were born?
Some were born to discover cures for disease; some born to be doctors, nurses or dentists; some were born to fight in the wars; some were born to be in politics and lead our nation; some born to be pastors/ministers; some were born to be missionaries; some born to be blue color workers and some have been born to never work at all.
Do you ever wonder what God was thinking when he created a new life that would be missing a leg when born, or deaf when born or maybe even blind at birth. What about the child born with downs syndrome or the child who carries a cancer gene and will not live past childhood.
How do these people play a part in our world as we know it? How do these people play a part in your life as you know it?
I heard a story today that has obviously caused me some deep thinking. Let me share this story with you; I am curious of your reaction.
There was a lady and her daughter living in a poor country and the daughter was very ill and she needed surgery to survive. Other then her daughter, two chickens and an angora rabbit she had nothing. On a regular basis the rabbit was groomed for the wool to make clothes and blankets and all they had to eat was the eggs provided by these two chickens.
A doctor was visiting the town she lived in and she knew she had to get her daughter to this man. After the doctor saw her daughter he agreed to perform the surgery that she needed at no cost. To show her appreciation she invited the doctor to her house for dinner. He knew she had nothing and did not want her to go out of her way but he also knew the right thing to do was to go to her home. So the next evening he went to her home and as he looked in the pot to see what she was cooking he saw the rabbit and two chickens. This women knew the true meaning of gratitude! She gave all she had in thanksgiving. When was the last time you gave all you had in thanksgiving?
Who knew that over their life time these three people would have been brought together. And who knew that this ladies selfless act would leave such an impact on this doctors life. Is that why they were born?
I know in my life there have been people who have left there mark. And I choose to believe I have left my mark in a few peoples lives as well.
At times I wonder why I was born. I have finally learned that God has a plan for my life. I don't know fully what that plan is I can only speculate. I wonder why at my age certain things have not happened to me and then in the same breath wonder why so many things have happened to me and have filled my life.
Do you know why you were born?
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Technical Difficulty
Oh this is so frustrating!!! I was writing out a new post and somehow in all my clicking it got lost. For you bloggers it says at the bottom of the create window that blogger now saves your drafts automatically, well it lies!!!
So here I go again with this blog.
Every person has a piece of modern technology of some kind. The most common ones are laptops, cell phones, Blackberries (not the fruit) and iPods. I like my 'toys' and enjoy them when they work. Very frustrated though when they don't work and I start to wonder why did I spend so much on them.
Just this past week my laptop decided to fail. It got a glich I guess you could say. For some reason Windows would not launch normally, every time it tried I got a flicker of the 'blue screen of death'. After several attempts of trying to fix the problem and never able to get to launch in safe mode or normal mode; I had to think of how to resolves this problem. I had to first decide if the data on my laptop is worth paying someone hundreds of dollars to fix or if I should just attempt to format the hard drive and hope that solves the issue.
I decided I would try and fix it myself. So now I needed to go rummaging for the recovery CD that has Windows on it and walk my way through the slow and painful process of wiping my laptop clean.
For whatever reason I had not recently backed up my data; guess I figured I didn't really need to or decided I was too busy to deal with it. Either way it came back and bit me in the a**.
After spending a total of about 5 hours my laptop is now back to as good as new. You know it is going to be a long process when Windows update has 60 updates for you computer!!!
Ya know Bill Gates as quite the thing going here. Every home or business has a computer which means they all need an operating system and unless you bought an iMac you are using some version of Windows for your operating system. I have not yet moved on to Vista as I figure it needs oh say 2-3 years to work out all the bugs so I am still using Windows XP which I was informed was a stable operating system. One would think that will all of Bill Gates millions of dollars his people could build an operating system that does not crash. But then again if nothing ever crashed how would Bill Gates make all his millions?!
My next laptop will be an iMac!!
So here I go again with this blog.
Every person has a piece of modern technology of some kind. The most common ones are laptops, cell phones, Blackberries (not the fruit) and iPods. I like my 'toys' and enjoy them when they work. Very frustrated though when they don't work and I start to wonder why did I spend so much on them.
Just this past week my laptop decided to fail. It got a glich I guess you could say. For some reason Windows would not launch normally, every time it tried I got a flicker of the 'blue screen of death'. After several attempts of trying to fix the problem and never able to get to launch in safe mode or normal mode; I had to think of how to resolves this problem. I had to first decide if the data on my laptop is worth paying someone hundreds of dollars to fix or if I should just attempt to format the hard drive and hope that solves the issue.
I decided I would try and fix it myself. So now I needed to go rummaging for the recovery CD that has Windows on it and walk my way through the slow and painful process of wiping my laptop clean.
For whatever reason I had not recently backed up my data; guess I figured I didn't really need to or decided I was too busy to deal with it. Either way it came back and bit me in the a**.
After spending a total of about 5 hours my laptop is now back to as good as new. You know it is going to be a long process when Windows update has 60 updates for you computer!!!
Ya know Bill Gates as quite the thing going here. Every home or business has a computer which means they all need an operating system and unless you bought an iMac you are using some version of Windows for your operating system. I have not yet moved on to Vista as I figure it needs oh say 2-3 years to work out all the bugs so I am still using Windows XP which I was informed was a stable operating system. One would think that will all of Bill Gates millions of dollars his people could build an operating system that does not crash. But then again if nothing ever crashed how would Bill Gates make all his millions?!
My next laptop will be an iMac!!
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