Weekly Posting of the Conservative Cow Doctor

 

Tiger and Me

 Last Thursday I learned Tiger Woods and I share a similar marital experience yet with a drastically different cause and effect. Tiger’s middle of the night, driveway demolition derby began with immoral choices he made years earlier, and ended with his trophy wife using a seven-iron to smash out the back window of his Escalade. Since I lack public notoriety, and since my incident involved no moral indiscretions, my driveway event failed to make the supermarket tabloids. Here is my story.

It was a Saturday afternoon last June and I was hauling a load of trash to the landfill. I hopped in my pickup and was rolling down my driveway, when my trophy wife stepped out of the house carrying a sack of garbage I had forgotten. She hollered and waved as I rattled across the cattle guard.

Realizing she could not scream loud enough, nor run fast enough to grab my attention, she kicked off her shoe, and flung it 150 feet, skipping it off the hood of my pickup. Being an alert driver ever aware of my surroundings, I immediately recognized something was amiss, so I stomped the brakes and skidded to a halt.

“You forgot one,” my trophy wife laughed as she limped to the pickup to toss in the last bag and retrieve her shoe. End of story…no unconscious golfer in the middle of the street, no 911 call, no reckless driving charge, and no paparazzi. It was just a dumb old cow doctor and his trophy wife laughing about a memory on a Saturday afternoon.

Tiger’s situation is different and his moral lapse troubles me greatly. Because of my Christian beliefs I would hope there are famous athletes and Hollywood personalities who share my convictions. But it is discouraging when you discover someone you admire has broken their marital vows and thrown their spouse and family under the bus.

Certainly, God can forgive us should we ask His Son for redemption, but it is our family who will be most hurt by our transgressions. Far too few people treat their marital vow with the respect it desperately deserves, and many young children will cry themselves to sleep tonight trying to fill the emptiness created by the dissolution of their home. Our American family is dying.

 
 
 
 
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