All Your Priorities Change
““. . .once you have a family, all your priorities change. . .
Golf will be very different for defending tour champion Rory McIlroy this year. At the end of August, McIlroy and his wife Erica became parents to a baby girl (Poppy Kennedy McIlroy) stating “she is the absolute love of our lives.”
Of course, having a baby changes everything. A fact that McIlroy acknowledged in a recent interview:
Before I had a family golf was most important, and then once you have a family, golf (is) definitely not the most important. It’s your family. They’re by far the most important.
Sometimes we imagine that additional “priorities” equals additional pressure. But golf’s reigning champion doesn’t see it that way:
It almost takes a little bit of stress . . . I don’t know, it just puts things in perspective. I love golf and I enjoy it and it’s my job. Whether I played on Tour or not I’d still play the game of golf. But it’s one of those where once you have a family, just all your priorities change, but in a good way, in a very good way.
Key Texts
Psalm 127:3–5 (ESV):
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
Genesis 1:28 (ESV):
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply. . .”
Ephesians 6:4 (ESV):
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
Key Topics
family, fatherhood, motherhood, parenting, work-life balance
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