Last week Tuesday a few of the guys in City Lights got
together for indoor cricket in Al Quoz.
The place is called INSPORTS and if you
didn’t receive any proper directions it’s quite easy to be in the office park
and still don’t find it. But once inside you discover that its quite a cool
place.
INSPORTS is Dubai's fully air-conditioned Indoor
Sports Facility. This indoor sports center offers the community in general the
facility for indoor cricket,
football, basketball, hockey, table tennis and others; all in a professionally
managed environment which includes coaching. Schools reserve the facilities
during the day and the evenings are structured to meet bookings by members / nonmembers
or alternatively for people like us to just come and have fun. The obvious
advantage of this sports facility is that it is fully operational year round
and is fully air-conditioned for the long hot summer months and dusty evenings
like tonight. Huge thanks to H.H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al
Maktoum who is the president of the Dubai Sports Committee for developing and
improving sports facilities such as INSPORTS!
Now I have to say that we have real professional
players like Adam and Clint. Geeze these guys are scary! Lol. I seriously
couldn’t even see the ball at times. The rest of the guys were good, they made
me look okay; at least for the first 30min. Being hopelessly unfit, not having
had any form of cardio activity for at least 7 months I was on the brink of
passing out lol!!! Luckily Lindi were on hand to doctor me with some sugar and
take my place on the pitch.
Events like these I believe is important for City
Life. I’ve long liked the idea of men getting together and
helping each other get by in life. As far as I can tell from reading history,
it used to be a lot more common for men to do this years ago than it is today.
Fraternal organizations, labor unions, sports leagues and at the extreme
monasteries come to mind. I wonder sometimes what it is that finally broke
these institutions. Could it be mass media and home entertainment? Too many
hours at work? Maybe a combination of these.
I think it’s time for those of us who have the
time and inclination, to start thinking about putting aside more time for stuff
like this. And rather than make them overly churchy or ideologically based, I
think the first order of business should be to simply offer people a place
where they can get away from the world for a bit and calm their nerves. No
competition over women, no workplace stress: just friendship, some
understanding and an opportunity to show people that Jesus loves and cares
about them.
Have a great week!
Gliss
No comments:
Post a Comment