Golf Balls

Iwas out playing golf with a good friend of mine a few their marbles, he shared in the find. I got them out the other weeks back. Golf, to me, has always reminded me of day and got a bucket of water to drop them in and clean the intro line from the 1960 and ’70s of ABC’s “Wide them up. World of Sports.” They aired all the winter Olympic games. You know, when I finished, most of them looked new. Remember the announcer? “It’s the thrill of victory! And There was a Wilson Duo: those are a softer golf ball and the agony of defeat!” They’d show some poor devil rolling good for us seniors who can no longer swing as fast as we down the ski jump, and the other was of a woman skating used to, and with the ball softer, it gives us a few more yards so effortlessly. One tee box, I’m driving it 200 yards straight in distance. Callaway and Titleist balls: now there is the other balls. We played only the front nine that day, but Ford or Chevy grudge match in the golf ball world. Either will go to water or the woods just as well as the green to putt in for par. Pinnacle: those are good as well. The point to all this story is that Adam works at finding them. He kicks the leaves and sticks looking for that one that the other player just would pass over or not take the time to search for. Golf balls are the cheapest thing in your bag, so why make the time? It’s just how the Lord searches for us: those who are lost and dirty from the field of play. He can find you, and better than my bucket of water and Dawn soap, He can clean your soul down the green, and then I’ll shank it 50 yards into the Revelation 21:5: “Behold, I make all things new.” woods on the next. As I got the balls out of the bucket and dried them, they

One swing of the club and thoughts of slipping on looked new. Christ will clean you, restore you, and put you the green jacket at Augusta, and then the next, you’re back on the path of life. The Bible says that He stands at the wondering if you could make the cut at the putt-putt door and knocks. I’m of the opinion that, like Adam, He too playoff, and so it goes. Adam and I were having a great day is out there kicking over stuff in our life looking for the lost of it up at Ridgewood, for better or for worse. The sun was and so wanting to find them. bright, and with a light breeze, it was very pleasant. Ezekiel 34:11: “For thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I

Now, what tickles me about Adam is his ability to find Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out.’” lost golf balls: well, others’ lost balls. Every time I’d drop Hmm: I never thought a golf ball had so much him off to look for his ball or mine, he’d return with a few testimony to it. whiter than new and restore you to new. 12 // October 2020 when we got back to the clubhouse, he had found 17 balls. We had lost, I think, six of our own. Like kids dividing up About The Author C. Douglas Baynes lives in Cleveland, Tennessee, with his wife of 39 years, Annie. They attend Peerless Road Church of God of Prophecy.