February 2, 2009

  • Silver Linings

    First, an aside:
    UFC 94 analysis - From Sherdog.com

    My take:
      Before there was football or sports, there was war.  No doubt boys and men everywhere discussed who would beat who if so and so fought so and so.  Four to five thousand years later (at least), we still discuss these sorts of things in fantasy sports, what-if war scenarios ... and most definitely in the world of all martial arts.

      We wonder what would happen if Bruce Lee fought Mike Tyson, or if Wong Fei Hong fought Musashi.  Conjecture with no way to prove one's conclusion.  It begets endless cycles of discussions filled with baseless pseudo-reasoning.

      UFC (and PrideFC, how I miss you!), Affliction, Dream and Sengoku make many of these dream matches possible by virtue of placing fighters of different disciplines together in a ring or cage.  I'd love to see what it looks like, when the best of a discipline goes against another.  It's a dream... and may never happen... but it's a dream.

      Watching Lyoto Machida pick Thiago Silva apart with ease was such a rush.  His mental excellence is extraordinary.  Fighting, for all its apparent brutality, begins and ends in the mind.

    Silver Linings:

      This weekend, my fmaily was finally able to spend some time together praying and reading scripture.  Spending time eating at nice restaurants, watching movies ... it was the first time in several months we've been able to live like a family.  Eating at the same table and talking about the issues of the day was an amazing experience that I've not had in a long time.  We studied Luke 15 together, discussing the two prodigals in relation to my brother and I, as well as my parents. 

      It was like a breath of fresh air.

      My Lord is good.

      2008 was a difficult year.  I'm starting, just starting to see how the Lord knows best in these last months.

    ευλελεω!

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