Football is my Religion

Some Spirituality and life lessons i learned from football.

1) The ball. The shape of the ball is round. it shows the pefectness of the world.
it shows that god made the world perfectly fine. there are no mistakes in god's creation
a quote in the bible said that " and all that was made was good"

2) The Goal Post. all of us move towards the goal in life. without the goal. our lives seems so meaningless.therefor
we should know our goals in life, we should know which direction we want to move in life.

3) Full time 90 minutes. we are limited to only some time on the football field. we do not have unlimited time.
so its what we do and how we play in the 90 minutes that's gonna determine the results.

4) Player skills: Each of us have our own creativity. we can do whatever we want with the ball. we can always kick
the ball out..of pass it to others in order to maintain the goal. in life. we have been given a gift of creativity
by the Lord. we can use it or we dont wanna use it. it's all in our hands.

5) 11 vs 11. It's only as a team that we can achieve victory. in life. if we are selfish and we only wants things
for our own sake. we wont be able to achieve it. by helping others and co-operating with others. we can acheive victory

6). The result of the game: either we win or we loose...we learn lessons..if we loose, we can learn from our mistakes
what we did wrong. and how to improve this wrongness
the lesson learnt is gonna make us a better team, a stronger team.
if we have victory. we should not be proud of it. we should also learn what factors lead us to the victory
and we should try to hold on to those victories. we can also help others to gain thier victory

7). The Field. We have a limited pitch on which we are free to move. it basically teaches us in life that we should be
under our limits, once we bounce out of the limits, we tend to loose control.

8). refree: the refree symbolises God. he watches us all the time. and he punishes us if we do mistakes or wrong actions

9). the opponent. to achieve our goals in life. we will always have obstacles. the point of this is not to run away from
our obstacles or difficulties but to face them. and find thier weakness. and once we can overcome and outgrow our obstacles
victory is surely in our hands.

10) the supporters: we dont always have people on our sides in life. sometimes we have other people who are against us
and what we should do is just do to our best. and let go of the rest.



Hope this note gives us some lessons to be learnt
cheers

crafted by: Mahesh Mahtani