had also seen a vision of

This is awful, just dreadful. Do yourself a favor and just read the book. This isn't one of your typical "Reading is fun!" crusades; those crusades are for cheerleaders and tweed jacket types. This is simply trying to do you a favor.

In any case, one overplayed piece of the movie lay in its depiction of how Vardon focused the rest of the world out of his mind's eye until all he could see was the flag and the green and surrounding wide-open fields. Ouimet had a similar focus visual with shimmering flags and greens. Heard athletes tell of the zone experience, and know something like it actually exists.

It's a wonder that skill hasn't been practiced towards worship. You are brought to the house of the Lord to meet Him there, and imagine the changed flock whose focus was not on the cellphone rings of the ignorant, or the wailing of the little ones, or the murmuring from beyond the closed doors. Imagine that focus on a shimmering throne surrounded by wide-open fields. Imagine that singing of yours being lifted to the rafters lifted instead toward seated wonder.

Great plus and all being able to see the others before the throne with you on that Great Day, but I'll tell you what. I won't see a one of them, my gaze instead lifted toward the shimmering, nothing else in sight but the only sight I need to behold.