life is like a game of golf.

Last week I played a game of golf - the first time in 12 mionths. We played "AMBROSE" We were in teams of 4. It works like this. We all tee'd off, then we selected the best positioned ball and all had our second shot from there. And so it continued. As a very rusty player i was able to make a significant contribution - I had a few "pearlers" of shots. It was a great team effort.

St Paul speaks about the Christian community being a "body" and we are all different parts of the body - working together for the common good.

This stands over and against the rampart individualism that affects so much of modern life.

I find it so much more satisfying when we use the "team model" do you?

Eating.....

My wife and I have just had an enjoyable holiday in Tasmania. Eating out at a variety of places we made a few observations.
1. The number of people who are seriously overwieght.
2. The size of meals people eat - that is of course facilitated by the size of serves the venues give the customer.
We found ourselves ordering "entree" serves whenever we could.
3. The lack of thought given to what one eats.

We are a nation that in may ways is eating itself to death.

Jesus speaks about "loving your nieghbour as you love yourself"; part of "loving one self" is bound up in caring for our physical health - this involves such things as thinking about what we eat and what exercise we do. And as parents helping our children making good choices in these areas as well.

It seems so simple, it is at one level; but when confronted with advertising, the size of meals venues serve and so on; it all becomes that much more difficult. We each need to take a greater responsibility for our own well being - learning what it is to "love oneself" in a "Godly" way.