Love is a word that's easy to say, easy to blame, but hard to embrace...REALLY!
In this case, God is Love, because both get praised casually and blamed thoroughly...REALLY!
The Sports world, as of late American Football, is a supreme laboratory in studying the casual toss of Love and God within the human equation, especially when we cannot define ourselves without someone else, or accept blame and find a scapegoat...the human sacrificial lamb.
Flash back to Steve Johnson of the Buffalo Bills, who drops the game winning pass and blames God. Johnson was reluctant to accept responsibility for the gaffe, posting on his Twitter account post-game that it was in fact God's fault:
"I PRAISE YOU 24/7!!!!!! AND THIS HOW YOU DO ME!!!!! YOU EXPECT ME TO LEARN FROM THIS??? HOW???!!! ILL NEVER FORGET THIS!! EVER!!! THX THO...," Johnson tweeted.
REALLY? Steve, you dropped the ball, not God. Of course you would easily praise him if you caught it. Still, you would have caught it, not God. Stop praising God for your success and failures and accept your roll in your own outcome.
Fast forward to today when the Tennessee Titans announce that they will either trade or release Vince Young. Vince goes on to state that "he never felt the love and respect from the coach to motivate him to play better." Love becomes the scapegoat for him, which makes it ok to walk out of a game twice, throw his pads into the stands and threaten suicide a few years back.
REALLY? Grow up Vince! You can only love those who love themselves.
Today, ask yourself, where is your love? Is it given to someone else before you love yourself? Is it sought from someone else before you find it within yourself?
Today, ask yourself, what is your love? Is it a person, a thing, a god, a dream, or is it the divine energy within yourself to motivate you to be the best you can be and to share that gift with others?
One thing is for certain, if you blame God or Love for your misery today, you're not looking at yourself in the mirror...REALLY!
Sir Hook the Lover of Warrick
