If you haven’t heard of Tim Tebow, it’s
really quite a story, and fascinating to watch.
He’s an underdog quarterback for the Denver Broncos
and a very religious young man.
He just won an outstanding game where all the sports
pundits said he was washed up after a couple
“dismal failures.”
He’s also been the center of HUGE polarizing controversies
about wearing his religion on his sleeve, whether he’s
good enough to play at this position, etc., etc.
Millions of people love him and millions hate him.
There are so many concepts surrounding things
like this…so many things to do The Work on that can take
us to our freedom.
I was a dedicated cross-country athlete in high school and college
and know how powerful the concepts of winning and losing are.
But it’s not just athletics.
It can be an argument where 2 innocent people with different
ideas gradually escalate into anger and viciousness about
who wins the argument…when they actually love each other.
Sometimes it’s polite viciousness and anger, sometimes it’s
with shouting and screaming.
It can be with food and eating and weight and whether
WE are winning or the FOOD is winning (when it’s
really our thinking).
It’s fun just looking at the Tebow phenomenon, where people
identify so fiercely with an underdog, like Tim Tebow, and have
HUGE emotional investments in how their “hero” does…
it makes for wonderful Work.
Winning and losing and “proving” ourselves can fuel
billion dollar industries-sports, politics, or a business trying
to get “market share,” or get revenge and crush the competition.
Or it can make us suffer along, with every bite of food we take.
My weekend on food and eating is in three days in Seattle. We are officially full but there’s room for one more if you email me soon. We’re diving into the game and getting to the root of what we’re believing—would love to have you join me.
Much love, Grace