Thursday, December 28
28/12/06
// feeling :: starved// prayer for :: S1
When I was showering, I thought of my poly choices. I wondered if I was even able to get into a poly. Then my thoughts wandered until it stopped at one of my badminton training sessions a few years ago.
The coach was drilling us in lobbing or smth. What caught my attention was that he didnt look at how I returned the ball, or rather the shuttlecock, in this case. He looked at how I moved my feet.
It got me thinking, and I associated it with, well, life. Its not the return of the "shuttle" that counts, but the process to get there.
In the context of badminton, some people take 3 steps by running there, while some take merely 2 steps, by using a wider side-step.
What God looks at isnt whether we hit a good or bad return. Its how we get there.
Do we take shortcuts in order to get there as fast as possible, not caring how we do it, like in badminton?
Some of us want to do things as fast as possible, thinking that as long as others dont catch me its alright. In badminton, my coach always looks at how we move our bodies, and not how we return the ball.
Same as God....He looks at our method of getting what we want. So what if we reach our goals, and our way of getting there was horrible, maybe hurting other ppl on the way?
We gotta keep in mind that there're other people on the "court" with us. More often than not, we play doubles, not singles. We have to think about the other ppl ard me.
Bottomline is: God looks at how we get there, not whether we get there or not.
What Catherine asked me 2 days ago kept ringing in my head:
Do you want to serve God?
The answer is:
YES!
michi ]|[ 12:07