Boring Soccer Games And Boring Lives

So I finished my prior blog with a note to self: As in soccer, so in life. Don't waste the game watching the clock. Play the game while you have time.

Good soccer games are not boring. Brazil vs. Chile was riveting.

Bad soccer games can be excruciatingly boring, and never more so than when it seems neither team wants and/or knows how to score.

Having watched Greece vs. Costa Rica last night, I speak from experience. The first half was so stultifyingly boring, I only watched the highlights of the 2nd half.

(Thankfully, this was an option. I wasn't watching the game live.)

But wow, folks... Even the 2nd half highlights were boring.

More fun than watching the game was reading the reviews of the game. Here are some choice comments I found:

...Drama seemed highly unlikely at the end of an excruciatingly dull first-half when the crowd in Recife, which was far from capacity, made their feelings known by whistling and jeering the teams into the break.

...Sometimes, the movement of a soccer ball can be hypnotizing. The worst time this can affect someone is when they are playing in a World Cup match, and trying to prevent said ball from entering their net, slowly.

Enough said on soccer. What about our lives?

Let's not give God lives that are so boring that he'd be tempted to skip whole years at a time. Nobody makes movies about couch potatoes.

I had just deleted those prior words. They seemed overly obvious.

And overly harsh.

Nobody makes movies about couch potatoes.

I had just deleted the words, and then my wife walked into the room and proceeded to inform me that someone we know is ailing.

This woman married young. Never got a job. Reached 400+ lbs on a diet of maybe 5-10 hours of TV a day. That was her life for 60+ years.

And now her clock is running down. Fast.

Does she belongs to Jesus? Yes. Is she nice? Nes. But if I reviewed her life, I'd fast-forward through decades of self-imposed sofa time.

How terribly sad. And I feel harsh putting these words down.

But we do ourselves a disservice if we don't take a plain look at our own lives and the lives of those around us with eyes wide open.

God has given us the gift of life. And a mission.

Are we going to give him a highlights film?

Most of this blog seems a repeat of the prior one. But I have a motto.

Never say with one blog on boredom what you can stretch into two.

In my next reflection, I'll get to what I had intended to write here.

Thoughts in response to this question....

When God reviews our lives, which parts would he call highlights?

To be continued...