Deep Down

 

Never doubt the fact that God doesn’t make junk.

Do you remember the catch phrase, what’s in your wallet?  Well, it got me to thinking, so I pulled out my wallet and started looking.  Here are a few random items that I found:

- Library card

- Wedding picture of my wife and I (with me sporting a motorcycle cop mustache)

- Pictures of all my kids

- Spare key for my bug truck

- Shortcut directions on how to get to Wild Wood, NJ

- Webster‘s definition of the word  faith

- A business card for a Seeing Eye dog organization

- And lastly, a wallet size picture of Bob Griese, hidden behind the pics of my kids. 

The reason this oddity is there is that for a short span of his football career Bob Griese wore eye glasses under his football helmet, even though it looked a little out of place.  For quite a while, as a young kid, I thought I bore a resemblance to him, because I too wore glasses.  Not to mention, he played for the Miami Dolphins who happened to be my favorite team and still are.

For a lot of my childhood I did not care for my looks, like many of us growing up do not during our formidable years.  So, for a NFL player to vaguely look like me, in my distorted view, gave me hope that I wasn’t so bad off after all.

 As parents, my wife and I often have told our kids repeatedly it is much more important what you look like on the inside than the outside.   Even more significantly it is of the utmost  importance that our souls be right with God.  Not that we look cool.  So, I carry Bob Griese around in my wallet as a reminder that it is OK to look a little dorky.

Deep down inside of all of us, we are hoping that we possess some sort of real worth.

Swavel