Slow and Straight, If You Want to Be Great

Week 6: Patience

Slow and straight, if you want to be great.
Proverbs 4: 23-27

In bowling, in golf, and in life this is sound advice. Daddy went bowling about once a year. What was his average score? I remember somewhere close to 180. In golf he shot a hole in one the first round he played but practiced and learned the game until about twenty years later he scored a 68 when he was 68. More than a great hole, he had a great round!

Daddy would try to help me have good rounds. “Don’t try to hit it so hard. You’re trying to connect with it, not kill it.” Life is like that. You’re not trying to beat it into submission. You’re just trying to swing through. Go slow and straight if you want to be great.

Are there things or people you tend to push rather than draw forward? Do we need to practice waiting on our Maker? Or, are we constantly trying to make things happen? Are there places you need to slow or straighten?