Well it’s summer and its time for the unveiling of Spirituality With Football Rules or SWiFR.
As I have alluded in my trailer entries leading up to today spirituality is more like an invisible force that doesn’t have a breeze or precipitation that announces it’s arrival. It is more of a subtle awareness that contains magnetic forces that we can either be attracted to or repelled from.
I chose football as my metaphor primarily because as men we are rooted in the concrete world and less comfortable in the ethereal one. If we examine football it contains all the VAK* we want as men. V is for visual. We watch the game. A is for auditory. We listen to the announcers, the crowd and the referee’s whistle and his call of the infraction. K is for kinesthetic. We feel the anguish of the dropped pass, fumble, interception or the exultation of a kickoff return TD or a bomb caught by our team in the end zone.
Spirituality contains these elements as well with the difference being that instead of us doing the initial sensing we sense through the reflection of others whether they are those we love, hate or are indifferent to.
Let’s take a time out, except there will be no commercials in SWiFR.
