Signs of the Times
October 2003
George Gregan on Winning and Losing
It may be one of the strangest possible confessions from a captain of one of Australia’s world champion sporting teams and an Australian representative in almost 90 games at the highest level.
Rugby Without Rules
So much of the history of football related to the setting down of “the rules.” The games where variously banned or modified for, without rules, they were merely legalised mob violence. Also, without a common set of rules, teams couldn’t compete against each other.
Shopstealers Get Court
Shopstealers, once referred to as shoplifters—the name was changed because the word shoplifter came to be considered too trivial for the crime committed—come from all walks of life. A person’s wealth or status is no guarantee of their honesty. There are no immunities—male and female, old and young, the professional and unemployed, wealthy, police officers and drug addicts. And most offenders are caught with enough cash on them to pay for the items they’ve stolen!
John Welsey’s Legacy
Near the River Trent in Lincolnshire, England, is the small village of Epworth. It was there 300 years ago that the Reformer John Wesley was born, on July 17, 1703. His achievements, viewed from anyone’s perspective, are quite remarkable.
God’s Lesson in Grace
God’s grace toward humanity is hard for us to fathom. But it isn’t dissimilar to that of Mike, who, when he was ripped-off by his best friend, felt betrayed. He’d invested his life’s savings to date into his friend’s “sure-fire” project, from which, his friend had said, he was “guaranteed” a generous profit.
Getting Along With In-laws
A frustrated woman wrote to advice columnist Ann Landers of her anxiety about an upcoming visit from her in-laws. “My mother-in-law is judgmental, critical, negative and controlling,” she complained. “My father-in-law watches TV at top volume 10 hours a day, talks constantly about his medical problems and eats only certain foods prepared under his supervision.”
Wow, there’s trouble brewing!
Developing a Passion for Health
You leap out of bed an hour before the alarm sounds and, before another minute has passed, you’ve donned jogging shoes and are pounding the pavement. With beads of perspiration on your brow and a grin on your face, you enthusiastically greet passers-by.
Does this scenario describe your exercise experience?
A Cry for Help From an Evil Place
“Stop it! Stop it!” wailed a girl two seats ahead of me, clutching at her head.
This was no high school prank, for the girl was clearly in pain. Then, inexplicably, she picked up her desk and hurled it across the room at me, before rushing from the room, trailed by a concerned friend. We were stunned.
What a Day a Difference Makes
Have you longed for a day free from work pressure, study assignments or even catching up around your home? There is such a day; it’s called the Sabbath. And in spite what you may think—that it’s a religious anachronism, that it belongs only to Judaism; it’s time you can’t afford to give up—it nevertheless continues to enrich the lives of people today just as it has for thousands of years.
Capital Growth
The Asian economic crisis of 1997 hit many Indonesian families hard. Rokilah’s family was no exception. Her husband’s redundancy put enormous strain on family finances and made them entirely dependent on her meagre earnings from the small shop she operated at the front of their five-by-four-metre house.
Forgiveness Brings Freedom
Many people cling to resentments because they feel they’ve paid so dearly for them they can’t possibly give them up. Sometimes people’s entire lives are built around past hurts. They dwell upon their negative experiences and, in doing so, the anger is deeply repressed. But forgiveness is so important in our lives. This was Warren’s experience.
The Active Life
If sport is only about winning, then what’s in it for the vast majority who fall hopelessly short of that ideal?
The shift in focus toward encouraging ordinary people to get off the couch and move, stretch and feel good has shifted the emphasis from winning to the eminently more achievable goal of simple involvement—in any form of exercise or sports.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
“Please don’t worry about a thing,” they said, “and accept with our compliments a free fridge magnet with the seven warning signs of cancer.”
I appreciate the water department’s openness, but I wish they’d kept their information to themselves. It’s a tragedy. It’s in the past. Let’s forget about it. I feel the same way about my high school haircut.
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