SPORTS January 4, 2010 Issue

A YEAR TO REMEMBER

KIM SHIPPEY, SENIOR WRITER

HOW ARE YOU going to remember the sporting year 2009? The continuing drug scandals that caught up even with Andre Agassi as he transitioned from tennis "great" to great benefactor of at-risk children? The crunching late tackles that put football players out for the season? The bench-clearing incidents that turned baseball's millionaires into brawling kids? The verbal abuse thrown at umpires and line-judges? Or the recent Tiger Woods incident?

Or, will you choose to remember your granddaughter's first goal in soccer? Ireland's triumph in the Six Nations Rugby Championship? How you felt when you completed your first marathon? The way England's cricketers reclaimed The Ashes from Australia at The Oval in London? Or Jamaican Usain Bolt's record-breaking sprints in the world championships in Berlin?

These random examples confirm that we have a choice, as in most aspects of life, about the way we view life's events. In speaking of the power of thought on one's experience, Mary Baker Eddy emphasized the need to "hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts" (Science and Health, p. 261).

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