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Category: Sports & Recreation / Topics: Forgive, Forgiveness • Grace • Sports
Grace is Cheap but Never Free
Posted: February 21, 2010
What are we to make of Tiger's crocodile tears?…
Mulligans aren't for true players.
They are meant for me and you.
For professionals like Tiger,
mulligan means Irish stew.
But when he begs for forgiveness
for his infidelities
is he asking for a gimmie
from his fans and family?
Should we let him pick his ball up
or should he be forced to putt?
Should he wait in line to pay up
or are we to give him cuts?
If he's starving for the status
that for month's he's been denied,
should we kill the fatted heifer
or let Tiger swallow pride?
Well, was Jesus only lyin'
when he said we must forgive
not just once or twice but always
when trust leaks as through a sieve?
No, he meant the words he uttered.
Yes, forgiveness is His call.
Maybe we should all remember
no one's perfect... none at all.
All the same a trust once broken
by some fractured faith or tryst
will require time for healing
once the wrong has been confessed.
Grace is free but very costly.
There's a price that must be paid.
Those forgiven can't take lightly
those mistakes that they have made.
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Greg Asimakoupoulos (pronounced AWESOME-uh-COPE-uh-less) is an ordained minister, published author and chaplain to a retirement community in the Pacfic Northwest. Greg maintains a blog called Rhymes and Reasons, which he graciously provides to SeniorLifestyle.Greg's writings have now been assembled in book form. See the SeniorLifestyle Store. • E-mail the author (moc.loa@veRemosewA*) • Author's website (personal or primary**)
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