Carol - Sport
Carol,
Here is an article on a footballer we have the privilege to watch, who has a physical gift which speaks (to me at least) of the wonder of God's hand in creating such skills in man. The guy is Travis Johnstone and you won't want to read the whole article, but here's a good comment:
Travis Johnstone glides on a football field with the ease of a sea bird. Or, as coach Neale Daniher has suggested, the flourish we once saw from Mark Waugh's bat. The grace with which "Trav" can play football is his alone, a signature as unmistakeable as was Waugh's mellifluous timing.
The rub for Johnstone, of course, as he makes his way through his eighth season with Melbourne, is the invitation to believe that because his gifts appeal so much, much of what he can do with the ball in his hand is truly effortless. In turn, this leads to a further conclusion: that his successes are God-given, his failures the damning result of a lack of exertion or will.
For the footy fanatics here, Greg Williams is another who had a special gift (different from Trav's gift) - the gift of amazing perception of time and space. And Gary, painful as it is to say, Brisbane Lions have their share and more of such gifted individuals!
# posted by geoff @ 3:23 pm
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