I\u2019ve been thinking a lot lately about the Tiger Woods issue.\u00a0 I want to learn something from this just because it seems to happen all too often.\u00a0 Our heroes fall and somehow we celebrate it.\u00a0 But something inside of us is glad that there is this all too human side of Tiger Woods.\u00a0 We like the condemnation and the tabloid exposure of the darker side of a man America has come to admire and celebrate.<\/p>\n
Here is what I am feeling today: shame on us.\u00a0 Shame on us for specializing in tearing people down<\/strong> or, at least, somehow being interested in the public disintegration of a husband, wife, and children, and so many others who surround this issue.\u00a0 Here is my conclusion.\u00a0 There is nothing inspiring about a man\u2019s sins and imperfections being on display.<\/p>\n What we need in America are not more cautionary tales; exposures of how public people have gotten it wrong in their private life.\u00a0 What we need is more exposure of those who are struggling to get it right<\/strong> on both sides of the equation.\u00a0 There are so many who are getting it right.\u00a0 They\u2019re the ones who are inspiring me; the ones who against all odds, win in the public and private arena.\u00a0 There are so many more of those than the Tiger Woods story.<\/p>\n I need to be inspired<\/strong>.\u00a0 I fight each day against the gravitational pull toward the cynic\u2019s chair.\u00a0 I refuse to sit there.\u00a0 I was created by a God who knew how flawed I would be, and yet loves me anyway; a God who forgives, redeems, and restores; a God who can pick a hero up and set him back on the right path.<\/p>\n Maybe Tiger will never be put back on the pedestal.\u00a0 Maybe he should never have been up there in the first place.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to find my inspiration in those who are getting it right, not in cutting down and shaming those who are getting it wrong.\u00a0 Again, there is nothing inspiring about celebrating, fixating, or condemning the imperfection of another person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve been thinking a lot lately about the Tiger Woods issue.\u00a0 I want to learn something from this just because it seems to happen all too often.\u00a0 Our heroes fall and somehow we celebrate it.\u00a0 But something inside of us is glad that there is this all too human side of Tiger Woods.\u00a0 We like … Continue reading “Shame on Us for Celebrating the Fall of a Hero”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}