Bagger Vance's Best Shot

The Gospel of Bagger Vance

Yep... Inside each and every one of us is one true authentic swing... 

Somethin' we was born with... 

Somethin' that's ours and ours alone... 

Somethin' that can't be taught to ya or learned... 

Somethin' that got to be remembered... 

Over time the world can, rob us of that swing...

 It get buried inside us.

under all our wouldas and couldas and shouldas... 

Some folk even forget what their swing was like...

                                                                                            

Bagger (Will Smith)  hands club to Junuh (Matt Damon)

The Gospel means "good news" because it frees us to be who we are.  I really like this quote from Will Smith because it tells us we have to get in the game of our life.  Sit it out, stop swinging...and you lose the very gifts God gave you.  So often we hear only part of the truth -- that God's gifts are unconditional, no strings attached and forget that we must accept responsibility for them.  Christmas comes but once a year, but how many of us pass the gifts by and leave them there unwrapped?  

The good news in this story is that when the student is willing, then somehow and from some place--the teacher shows up.  Bagger comes out of nowhere--and yet speaks to the heart of Junuh.  But mark these words!  He does not give Junuh anything but the confidence to look for what was lost and the grace to go looking.