A Life In Christ

Perspectives: True to yourself, a tale of two golfers. Written by Bryan Hyde on November 8, 2012 OPINION – A few years ago I had the opportunity to visit with my dear friend Jim on his deathbed. Because it was clear that he was nearing the end of his life, I asked him to share with me the most important truths he had learned in his 75 years. Not surprisingly, his first response was that life is about “loving and being loved in return” and how this outweighed all material concerns. His second response surprised me. He quoted a line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet where Polonius counsels his son Laertes, “This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” Jim told me that although he had read these words many times throughout his life, he said, “Now I feel them in every part of my heart.” To illustrate what he was relating, he spoke of a young man who was an exceptionally gifted professional golfer. This golfer had t