I had experienced a real freedom  for several days after apologizing to the starter... no more complaining about slow play... no feelings of superiority... just enjoying the golf and the people... until..... it happened....

I was playing behind basically the same  group of slow people... it seemed we were waiting to take our next shot on every hole... one of us would say something... it would build... next thing I knew I was right back into it... making my sarcastic  comments... it kept building until the 6th hole... I thought the folks were never  going to get off the green... and then... one of their group got in a cart and drove out behind us to hit his shot over because they couldn't find his ball... it was all down hill from there...

I found myself right back into it big-time... only this time I saw it... talked to the Lord about it... and able to stop complaining and just walk back to my ball... waited there... talking some more to the Lord... started praying for the people in the group... I was free again.... another inch of that thing had gone... hasn't been back since.... hope it stays away....

What if... we started teaching that what we need to do is to turn to the Lord... and recognize that we do things we don't want to do because we are human beings... and that is what human beings do... and see that the way to freedom is not somehow stopping what we are doing..  failing time and time again...  but simply turning  to Him  instead.... and experience  Him setting us free...

very different way to live