an unlikely bigger game

November 9, 2005 by  

I’m not sure if its because I’m recognizing them more, or if its because there are more out there, or if the media is now reporting them…but I’m seeing Bigger Games everywhere.

I’m so drawn to the Ashley Smith story/bigger game.  She’s the Atlanta woman who last March was held hostage for hours (or days?) by a multiple murderer on the run.  Religious conservatives, including  George W. and  Rush Limbaugh turned her into a saint and an angel through whom God spoke. Months later she came out with the truth: she is a recovering drug addict who shared her methamphetamine with the fugitive and it calmed him down.  Now she has written a book, Unlikely Angel.

Smith says despite what others have said about her, and regardless of how she’s been packaged by her publisher, "I did what I had to do to get out of there alive, and honestly I believe that God gave me all the tools I needed to get through it. And I honestly believe some of them were not so good," she adds. "He used my past to help me."

Sure, the book deal benefits her and the real story would’ve eventually come out anyway.  But this strikes a chord and reminds me of a quote (by who I don’t remember) I read ages ago and never forgot.

Nothing to hide, nothing to offer.

I believe you have to ‘come clean’ to play a Bigger Game in life.  Its not as easy when you have a lot to risk.  There lies "the gulp" which the Bigger Game describes as:

“I don’t know how or I don’t think I am capable of this.” You have entered into the GULP. If you know how to play the “game” you are up to, then it is not a Bigger Game. There must be a sense of GULP in order for it to be defined as a Bigger Game. This Bigger Game will demand you to develop competencies, skills and abilities that you don’t already possess.

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