Kickoff

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. 

Mini Camp

When football teams hold mini camps they get the new players acclimated to the schemes they will be facing as summer approaches.  Spirituality has no such scheme only a design for living and there is no risk of injury to boot.  

The Do Over

Penalties are assessed yards backwards.  Spirituality recognizes infractions but there is no penalty, only a chance for a do over. 

Who Are We?

The Male Composite: 

Spiritual/Physical/Emotional/Psychological

So we are not just idiots that stare at the TV screen during the winter on Sundays?

I Hate ESPN

It’s only May and they are talking about if Brett Favre will again suit up this year. Who cares about such nonsense here in New York?  Not many I bet except for ESPN who seem to have been short on stories today. 

The real football story starts this summer: Spirituality With Football Rules.  ESPN might not be there but you can. 

Summer is Nigh

Summer's coming and even though we are totally immersed in baseball our minds start to think about weekends in front of the TV.  I want you to start thinking that football and spirituality have much in common.

End Over End

End over end it sails and as we hold our collective breaths we wonder in those few seconds if it will be good or no good.  The tapestry of spirituality blankets us when we are in doubt of the outcome and if it is “no good” we can breathe deep and kick it again.