Greetings. It's Monday, May the 20th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins

with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article by Dr. Ryan Denison. I plan to write today's

daily article about golfer Scotty Sheffler's response to his early morning arrest last Friday and the

global coverage that has ensued. Then word came this morning that Iranian president, Ibrahim

Raeisi, died in a helicopter crash in northwestern Iran. A hardline protege of the country's supreme

leader, his death is likely to set off what the Atlantic is calling

a fierce scramble for power in the Islamic nation. The two stories offer the same reminder in starkly

disparate ways. The time to prepare for the inevitable crises of life is before they happen.

Dwight Moody noted that character is what you are in the dark.

However, our character is revealed to a skeptical world when the bright light of adversity shines on us,

and none of us knows when that moment is coming. To be the people we most want to be, there's a

choice we can make right now. Its consequences will shape this world today

and echo in the next world forever. As everyone who follows the news knows, the world's number one

golfer was arrested Friday morning. A man had been struck and killed by a shuttle bus earlier that

morning. Sheffler tried to drive around the crash scene when he was arrested

by an officer and taken to jail. Golf Digest has an in-depth account of what happened and what happened

next. Most observers seem to think this was a misunderstanding. According to the Wall Street Journal,

other golfers at the scene described a rare level of pandemonium.

One set of Sheffler's arrest, that could have been any of us.

After he was booked and released, Sheffler stated,

There was a big misunderstanding of what I thought I was being asked to do.

I never intended to disregard any of the instructions.

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