While in AL, I attended my first ever college football game with
Colton and Katelynn, Byron and Capers Whatley, LauraAnn, Daniel and
David Bond and Conner Knapp. Now, I like football. It is great fun to
watch. In NM we went to high-school football games quite often, but I
had no idea what it was like to go to a college football game. 
It
was quite the experience! Auburn got creamed by Arkanas (which was
great fun to tease the Whatley’s about not that I did that, of
course. I think it was Byron who was threatening to give me four flat
tires on my car. ). Really though it was a lot of fun and a great
cultural experience. I also learned something… while at the game we
were quite a ways off the field and could not see details very well.
From where we were it looked like the refs made some really bad calls.
After we got home, we were talking to our parents about it (who stayed
in the nice cool house, on a nice comfortable couch and watched it on a
big TV and didn’t pay $4 for a bottle of water ) and they were
saying that they could see up close because the camera was there by the
field. They told us that in reality all the calls made were legitimate
and that watching from different angles they could see it from a
different perspective than we could. Even though we were there and
watching it live, they had a different angle. How many times do we jump
to conclusions before we really know what is going on? We think that we
can see clearly and make a judgement based on what we can see. I think
that a lot of times we need to step back and look at it from another
perspective and angle. My minister in the church where I grew up
preached a sermon once about dully-noting and dismissing people. He
said that we will look at the appearance of someone or something they
are doing and dismiss them without another thought. God calls us to
see the heart as Jesus did. Remember the story about the women who just
put two mites in (Mark 12:41-44), it was such a small amount, but Jesus
was looking at the heart. In the right perspective it was more than all
the others gold because it was all she had. To someone looking on it
might have seemed cheap, but to someone who knew the situation it was
far from cheap. Things are not always what they appear (I think that is
a Bill Jack quote ).
I wish I had some pictures to show you, but all of us forgot to take a camera…
