Monday in the Fifth Week of Lent

Jake: The fourth hole on the Golf Course I don’t like. It has water in front of the green, and I always hit in the water.

Will: I love it. There are ducks on the water. I like ducks.

Don’t you wish you could have Will’s attitude? Where others see the water in front of the golf green as an obstacle. Will sees the water as a place for ducks to swim. Many of us see the obstacles to our goals, while Will sees the obstacles as a place for his beloved ducks. Many of us have faced what we thought were insurmountable obstacles. In these difficult times many can only see the difficulties that lie ahead. The difficulties are real. The obstacles are real, but we could all use a little Will right now.

In golf they call water in front of a green a hazard. Those who play golf know the way to avoid a hazard is to not focus on it, but focus on the goal of the flag stick beyond the hazard. This is easier said than done. We also face hazards in our life and we tend to focus on the hazards not the goal. Perhaps Will is offering a different approach. Maybe when we see a hazard, difficulty, or obstacle to our goals we just let it be a place for someone else to swim.

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About the author

Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.