{"id":3576,"date":"2021-08-07T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3576"},"modified":"2021-08-04T14:26:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T20:26:16","slug":"perseverance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3576","title":{"rendered":"Perseverance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been writing about my <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3560\">progress in golf<\/a>, such as it is, as a function of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3566\">Purpose<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3569\">Practice<\/a><\/li><li>Perseverance<\/li><li>Performance <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, let&#8217;s consider <strong><em>Perseverance<\/em><\/strong>. After I <strong><em>purposed<\/em><\/strong> to improve my golf game and began to <strong><em>practice<\/em><\/strong>, mostly on the range, I&#8217;d have days when I thought, &#8220;It&#8217;s coming! Today I hit 50 balls and most of them were good hits!&#8221; Then I&#8217;d go out the next day and maybe only a third were good hits. At that point I realized:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Purpose and practice aren&#8217;t enough. I have to persevere even when there&#8217;s little apparent progress. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, I told my friend and fellow golf struggler Tom that I considered my current experiment  with golf as &#8220;an exercise in goal-setting and perseverance.&#8221; And so I stayed with it. I&#8217;d take another lesson where I&#8217;d usually realize that I wasn&#8217;t implementing the basics that my instructor had already tried to teach me. So back to the range. Back to thinking about what I was supposed to think about. Practice. Practice. Practice. And even after the &#8220;good&#8221; round that allowed me to write this series, I went out a week later and&#8230;one step forward, two steps back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isn&#8217;t life like that? I think my problem with anger is in the past until I&#8217;m around &#8220;certain people.&#8221; I&#8217;ve been faithful in my daily time with God and scripture memory, and I still have issues. &#8220;It&#8221; doesn&#8217;t work! That&#8217;s when it&#8217;s useful to recall our purpose, resume our training, and persevere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. (Hebrews 10.36, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been writing about my progress in golf, such as it is, as a function of: Purpose Practice Perseverance Performance Today, let&#8217;s consider Perseverance. After I purposed to improve my golf game and began to practice, mostly on the range, I&#8217;d have days when I thought, &#8220;It&#8217;s coming! Today I hit 50 balls and most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3576\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perseverance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-VG","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3590,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions\/3590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}