"....Okay, this has been a particularly difficult hole on a difficult course. Surrender to that difficulty. Golf is not only like life, but it's like God. It's bigger than you are. At this point you can give up. Or you can let it break you. Then you can go on, broken and in awe.
"To surrender means to admit defeat. In a minor way it is what we do whenever we declare an unplayable lie. As noted on the last hole, we do not naturally like to surrender, even in such a small way. Yet in the ongoing journey of life, surrender is often the key to success, as we may from time to time need to surrender to our marriages or to the demands of leadership. Still, it is so difficult, we usually need tutoring in the art of surrender. The best tutor for me personally has been the story of Jacob in the Old Testament."
-M. Scott Peck, Golf and the Spirit: Lessons for the Journey
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