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A newsletter featuring thoughts and meditations by retired clergy and their spouses, intended to inform, uplift and enlighten you.
The Score Vs. The Game
Edward R. Sims, D.D.
One of my favorite The New Yorker cartoons shows a lady golfer knee deep in the rough beside the fairway. She addresses her caddy, "Young man, you and I are going to share a little secret." The secret, of course, is that the golfer is going to use a "hand mashie" to place the ball out of the rough onto the fairway; two acts of cheating: saving herself from a bad shot and avoiding a penalty stroke. I prize that drawing because it captures for me a larger truth about life: you can cheat on the score, but you can’t cheat the game. The "score" being the visible rewards of a "successful" life; the "game" being the moral realities of human life as God has created it.
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