The Interlude

Every four years as the football season morphs into baseball, there is a February interlude, The Winter Olympics.  Women's figure skating is the spiritual moment for me in those two weeks.  The combination of grace, beauty, ballet, and athleticism, moves my heart like a great opera, musical, or liturgy.  Those five minutes when the women finalists skate for the gold are so uplifting.  There is a God and this God is at work in these performances.  Spiritual highs for me are less often in church and more often in the human person responding to their moment of truth that brings out all the best that is in them.  But then you might want to watch basketball or a sitcom.  Pity.