Down and dirty again

Sometimes the good die young like Mozart, Pat Tollman or Jesus, or the bad like Lord Bryon, Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain. Sometimes, we don’t know whether they are good or bad like Alexander at 33 or a 30 yr.old male neighbor who committed suicide or a dad who shot himself last night in front of his children and their mother. With each death, the mystery remains as to why Jesus set the rule for 33 or thereabouts as the time of crisis and upheaval, whether mental, emotional or spiritual - or all three. For sure, this 30's time period must be noted with the question, “Why?” Now we come to Tiger Woods, a man who knows not how to appreciate everything he has achieved. Stupid pig would be an appropriate characterization for Tiger, but I have known clean, intelligent pigs, large and small that touched my heart. Pig genetics determines much of what the porcine creature can achieve, but pigs by the nature of their creation can only be good. At 33, Tiger Woods demonstrates in dark strokes how damning and dangerous are these 30 something years. But for the good people of God, how bad and sad would this world of the Tiger Woods’ be!