Sunday, September 20, 2009

what are your intentions

cricket lovely cricket
I just came through a brutal time at work
18 hour work days etc....
it was too much a couple of saturdays ago
so  although I left home for work...I just couldn't face
the office...I diverted to the park
SHAZAMM !!!

a cricket match was in progress
I watched for a few hours....
it all came flooding back

it must have been at least ten years
since I had seen a cricket match

the batsman settled down at the crease
the captain was adjusting the field
long on fielder was too deep

the square leg umpire sighted the wicket
and the wicket keeker stepped back and
crouched behind the stumps

the bowler went to his mark
turned and started his run up to the
wicket and delivered....it dropped
just short of a length and turned
into the batsman who leaned back and punched it
comfortably through the covers
they crossed for a quick single


then I thought all these sports are pretty much the same
some one is trying to do something
and someone else is trying to stop it.

Daddy liked to talk about sports
first there was cycle sports..at race course in the
early days....we could sometimes hear the shouts
from our home in Hampton Street....we could definately hear the
roar of the crowds from Sabina Park....that Wesley Hall was
something else...they said some of his deliveries
were in excess of 90 miles per hour....and they didn't
wear protective headgear back then....
and of course nothing got daddy more excited than
boxing.

So in addition to Politics and religion
I cannot ignore what seems to be Americas
number one obsession SPORTS


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

intentions bare some relation to expectation...what the parent expects does not always match the intentions of the child....Peace is when there is a match....Gods expectation of me?
"to fear God and keep His commandments this is the whole duty of men"...sometimes we have no intention of doing the thing to please God....