The two-sided, beauty-and-the-beast nature of tennis is the depth of the game, the exquisite nuances to learn, and the frustration of knowing how much we don’t know.
Above, you see the tennis books in my library. These don’t even come close to all the videos I’ve viewed, lessons taken, and matches watched. Each instance is yet another prick that there is more to know, learn, and execute.
“There’s so much we don’t know” were the opening words from Fr. Joe’s sermon about balancing knowledge and faith. If we think we don’t know much about tennis, just imagine what we don’t know, for example, about heaven. (Of course, I don’t mean how winning a Grand Slam can be a touch of heaven.)
As in tennis, there are abundant resources to grow in knowledge, but more so in faith. Nothing can compare to the history of God’s people we find in the Old Testament and the living words of the New Testament. But there is more, something that is so surpassing that, ironically, it can be a stumbling block to faith. That something is a person and that person is Jesus Christ. When we know Christ, in some respect, we know all.
