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Golfing with God
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to lie on comfortable cloud recliners. Each recliner had pockets stocked with a huge bowl of plain Golden Flake potato chips. The spirits often complained about their lack of food variety. Black hole monitors were sensitive about this, but felt they compensated by providing a choice of all the beers ever brewed. And each day there would be new ones as microbreweries shot up all over the galaxy. Besides, the chips and brew were provided to inspire torrential talk and rampant honesty, not to appease the palette. Food was actually unnecessary in Heaven. Water was also an option, but most drank beer. You couldn’t harm your spiritual entity with beer bellies, liver rot or DWI catastrophes — so why not?
Thus Graham found out about Jake’s 1991 investigations several earth years after the Reverend died. He liked Jake’s conclusion that Graham’s power could be explained partly due to his audacious speaking style. It was so dynamic he could convince others that they too could experience the joie de vivre that he felt.
But Graham drank several beers over Jake’s second conclusion about the source of his power ... golf. In 1937, in the pit of the Great Depression when many people were just trying to get enough to eat, Graham got to play as much golf as he could stomach, and for free. That year Graham was attending the Florida Bible Institute which had just bought the bankrupt, adjoining Temple Terrace Golf and Country Club. Graham became the groundskeeper.
Though self-taught, Graham got to be a fairly good golfer. This was all the more impressive because he held the clubs cross-handed, something very few other people in recorded golf history have done. What was so important