Trained to “win” since youth, I wish I knew more how to win God's way...

Trained to “win” since youth, whether in sports or in a battle against the Warsaw Pact, I am finding it difficult, in this season of Lent, to “unlearn what I have learned.” Just as Neo only “won” by allowing himself to be engulfed by the Agent-Virus Smith in THE MATRIX TRILOGY, and just as Luke Skywalker, a Jedi with only nominal Jedi powers was only able to defeat Emperor Palpatine, who not even Yoda could defeat, through the result of endless imploring for his father, Darth Vader, to see the good still in himself, I get excited about walking in way of the Master (or, as we say at the Gathering, “the way of the serpent and the dove”) but cannot resist trampling a vanquished foe.

I still feel the freedom of creativity which I find in a chess game or scoring a goal in soccer with a half-volley floater, curving just under the crossbar, as well as freedom and creativity in enterprise – whether business, financial, or organizational. I just wish I were gentler as a rule.