Sporting Events are a great pass time, but can these Events be a springboard to our spiritual enlightenment? May be not in the sense of teaching us the fatherhood of God . But maybe in the sense of the Brotherhood of all men and women,yes just notice the strong spirit of brotherhood at Sporting Events.Brotherhood is a strong universal power with thousands of fans generating this powerful universal energy its a wonder that road teams ever win, is Sports a spiritual springboard to LIGHT and LIFE?

Organized sports had a big impact on my life. At age twelve while living on the north side of St. Louis, Missouri,1972 I was introduced to my soon to be spiritual father figure

"Mr.Charles" Owens. "Mr.Charles" was a unique man full-time carer for an invalid

mother,reverend,and basketball coach for hundreds of inner-city St. Louis youths. After caring for his mother during the day he would hop in his big blue van and scourer the whole of the city picking up my basketball team mates the "Crusaders".Rarely did we get to ourscheduled games on time picking up 15-25 youths city wide takes hours. During our hours of travel" Mr.Charles" would preach non- stop. Now being young most of us would be ignoring his repeated sermons on brotherly love and the "golden rule" but looking back on those days, I realise that etched in my mind are memories of bonding during the games with my team mates a brotherly bonding. I do not remember when the feelings to listen to the words of wisdom from my spiritual father figure overtook me but I soon went from being the first pickup rushing to the back of the van where all the horse play was carried on, tobegging to be the first pick up to enable my assured reserved seat riding shot gun to experience the sermons from the front row.Yes sports can be a springboard to spiritual enlightenment and as i grow older,look back at these pasts thinking it's not if you win orlose,it's not how you play the game,its the fact that we are all brothers, but more importantly we should love each other as Jesus loves us.The fatherly love.

About the Author

Michael Shanks is a 22 year employee for the us postal service employeed as a distrubution clerk for the full 22 years. Job titles consisting of MLSM clerk (mulity letter sorting machine) for 11 years, as a SPBCS (small parcel bundle sorter) machine clerk for 5 years, and the other time as a mail clerk in general. My hobbies are playing chess online and bowling. http://drop2ushop.com/blog