WOW! Is This Really the Truth? Tiger Woods Reveals Our Western Hubris

Say it ain’t so…

Tiger Woods: I am not perfect | the Guardian
But apology or no apology, Rubenstein believes the image of Tiger Woods the perfect husband and family man has been shattered. “I don’t think it will ever be restored.” Yet that might not prove to be as disastrous for Woods as it sounds. “It might matter to his wife,” Rubenstein said, “but most people have got used to the idea of philandering. We are not in the Victorian era.“

Yet it is so. One more of our role models has fallen. And the thing that mystifies me about it all is that we have such a lack of care or remorse for the end of yet another public commitment. Have we really gotten used to the idea of “Philandering?”

Did this really happen? Have we changed so much that you wives out there really don’t care if we men act like animals? Is it really alright now to mess around on your covenant partner? And if this is the case, when did it happen? How did we get hardened? Was it when the internet made everything so accessible? Was it due to the shows we watch hardening us like “Desperate Housewives…”

I don’t know. All I know is that I do hope Tiger works it out. He really was one of my heroes. Was is the key word. Now, he is one that I pray for. I hope that family can be restored. I am so very sorry for him and I am so very sorry that this had to become such a public spectacle. It is just so tragic.

I guess the really sad thing about all of this is that this is a true signal that there has been a breaking down of the family unit. We are in an era that is a moral vacuum of sorts. I hope for the day when the “hearts of the fathers turn back to their children and the hearts of the children to the fathers.” Where a man finds his satisfaction in the bosom of the wife of his youth.

Where we can marry and grow old together. And sit outside on a porch and hold hands as we rock in rocking chairs, watching the grand-kids grow up.

I know that I am as accustomed to failure as anyone else and I am probably the chief of all sinners to tell the truth, which worries me even more with my own heart and values. I am going to covenant today again with my eyes not to look lustfully upon a woman as Job stated.

I want to grow up before I grow old.
I want to make all the important decisions right now before I am in the heat of battle.
I want to be the one my kids grow up with.
I want to be the one my family looks up to.
I want to be holy.
I want to be simple.
I want to live fully.
I want to make sure that everyone else is better able to succeed because they can see a little further due to the opportunity to stand on my shoulders.

I may have to spend some time in the public eye. If that is the case, then LORD give me the ability to stay on my knees and keep my head bowed down before you so that I won’t sin against YOU and make YOU look bad.

pd