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Eye on the World: the sports stages are set
The Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks are heading to the Super Bowl, having won their respective league championships in tough games on Sunday. The Seahawks and the Broncos will battle on February 2 for the NFL championship, pitting the league’s top defense against its top offense in the first-ever Super Bowl to be played in an open-air stadium in a cold-weather city.
Meanwhile, athletes around the world are preparing for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, which will begin on February 6. On Monday Jamaica announced it would be sending a bobsled team to the games for the first time in 12 years, and the day before, American hurdler Lolo Jones was named to her country’s bobsled team. Other closely watched sports include downhill skiing, figure skating, and women’s ski jumping, which will be included as an Olympic event for the first time. Russian security is currently working hard to ensure that the Olympic venues and surrounding areas in Sochi are safe for the arrival of athletes and spectators next month.
“Spirituality and sports,” a recent Sentinel audio chat, includes a lively discussion of how we can learn spiritual lessons by watching or participating in sports. By focusing on the qualities of strength, grace, humility, and discipline — qualities that come from God, rather than from personal ability or force of will — we can see more clearly how God cares and provides for each one of us.
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