Brett Favre, quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings, reached a significant milestone on Sunday.
You might not have heard about it. It happend during the game, but it wasn't like game was stopped to commenmorate the event or anything.
There was hardly a mention of it, really.
Favre is now on record as attempting 10,000 passes.
It wasn't widely covered today in the recap of the games.
How many times you attempt passes doesn't really seem too significant in the NFL.
Attempts might be more important for us.
It's not how many times you get knocked down, it's how many times you get up that matters.
But of course the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
You got to know when to hold 'em, and know when to fold 'em.
Etc.
Maybe sometimes it's not so much the hope of the elusive championship or the roar of the crowd that lures you out of retirement or drives you to suit it up one more time.
Maybe it's just the chance to attempt again.
How will the next try lead you to something different?
One of my favorite scenes in a sports movie is the closing one of 8 Men Out.
There is a mysterious outfielder on a small time minor league team.
Long after the humiliation of the Black Sox scandal.
Is that him out there?
Is that Shoeless Joe?
Far from the limelight and the thrill of the World Series:
Is that him?
Attempting again?
Is there anyway to prove the inherent value in the attempts?
Here's to trying.
2 comments:
I think our responsibility and obligation lies in the attempt. We can control that.
Too much can happen between our attempted effort and the outcome that's outside of our control. The weather. Attitudes. God's intervention. Etc.
Through our attempts, we do our part and let God be God. This doesn't mean we shouldn't care about the outcome. It just means we should do our best with what we've got where we're at, and let God do God's thing.
A wise man shared with me one time his philosophy about everything matters and nothing matters.
One small insight into how this can be may come from examining the importance of the attempt and the outcome.
Where the attempt is concerned, I tend to lean towards everything matters.
On the outcome: along the ruts of sour grapes and apathy: nothing matters.
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