There’s
probably thousands of people the world over presently writing about the Tiger
Woods story of redemption. It’s so true. Redemption came crouching, stooping
lowly, for a decade and more.
That’s
what makes this redemption story even more special. It took the humility of
showing up to years of ‘below-par’ performances, of failing to place, of being
unimpressive, to prove the champion’s character.
I
don’t know the first thing about Tiger Woods the man, but I do know what eleven
years in the wilderness says. He was top of the world until the bottom fell out
of it. It was the scandal of 2009. Perhaps it’s just that he could do nothing
other than play the game he loves. Maybe the world just loves an underdog
story.
One
thing we can know, however, is faithfulness in any pursuit is tantamount to a
borrowed success.
Whoever
sets their mind to a thing, giving all of themselves to it, will without doubt
move toward that thing. They do and they must.
Actions
of faithfulness are a redemption being readied at the required time. It is a fait accompli.
If
anyone has lost all of what they ever hoped for, their hope is utterly reliant
on an against-all-odds redemption that will see the restoration of their
fortunes. It may take ten years, like with Tiger Woods. It could take fifteen
or twenty, but what would we do otherwise. We must forget what the past has
cost us and forge forward, headlong, a day and one action and interaction at a
time, into the future.
That
is faithfulness; the negation of the present cost in the hope of redemption
because faith refused to be swallowed by death. Such faith is the hope of
resurrection, where redemption is ascension.
Photo: Sky News.
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