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Write About NowArchive for April, 2009
Entering a New Phase
I’ve never trained formally as a basketball player, although sometimes I wish I had. I find I still fumble at my fundamentals, after all these years. Sometimes I get to play, sometimes not… especially when the conditions are not right. And since my early days, when my many efforts saw missed shots and devastating disappointments, I have since honed my skills and developed accuracy, confidence and team awareness.
But, I realize a yawning lack still, and try as I might, I know there are many things that I still have not trained for. My footwork is erroneous and my passing too predictable. I get too tense under pressure. My game style is too boring.
I am super gung ho for the game right now, but I have also learnt not to be too hung up on it either, and risk fouling out the joy. When my fear of failure makes another pass at me, I freeze. So I’m learning to relax and take the plays as they come, although I’m still missing baskets, losing games.
But today, I will reach for the ball again and begin anew.
[ps. This post isn't about basketball.]
Tree Quote
“Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.” Charles Dickens.
The heart’s desire for anyone/everyone involved with molding lives and shaping character.
Randomize Thy Blog
Ok. The Lord told me to blog. Yeah, He’s cool. He got me into basketball, jogging, foosball, and Kluang and writing and… 
I’ve been holding a few ideas in my head since the last time I wrote about being fleeced in my greek exam. And turns out that even the greek sentence I constructed was grammatically WRONG. Wakakakaka…
But, aside the frustrations at not being able to SCORE at Greek (which keeps me humble), and having to deal with my terrible work ethic, I am having farn.
I had a good game of basketball on Wednesday. Won two of the full-court games comfortably, with different scratch teams. (And I’m quite pleased at the success of the strategy change and the practices of lay-ups done the day before.)
I’m making progress on my Romans paper, but too slowly (for my own good). Will be going to Melaka this weekend, God willing, for food (ugh), Scrabble and fellowship, which although ‘relaxing’, will mean less time for work. I have one more month to finish all remaining papers. Things look a little better than they were last year at this time, but I’m still behind in most things. However, I am happy to say that I’ve been so much more punctual (if not early) for my appointments, which bodes well for consideration of other ’self-development’ initiatives.
In short, I’m still enjoying life. And although I still feel I could know more Scripture, be more caring, or more efficient in the way I do stuff and handle my time, I know that pleasing God lies not in the future, but in the calm assurance of His pleasure and acceptance in the day to day. And His burdens have not been heavy.
