Tom Brady: The Search for Meaning

Tonight, more than 100 million people will watch the Super Bowl in the US, and most expect that the key player for the Patriots will be Tom Brady (a Michigan alum, I might add). Tom Brady, the 3-time Super Bowl champion quarterback of the New England Patriots was featured recently in a 60 Minutes interview with Steve Kroft on CBS. In that interview, even at the pinnacle of his success today, Tom Brady is wondering if this is all there is — click on the picture below to have a look at the video:

Brady is a sports legend at 30 years of age –he has won the Super Bowl MVP twice, was this year’s NFL MVP, been named to the Pro Bowl 4 times, named the Associated Press’ “Male Athlete of the Year.” He has dated actresses and supermodels and makes millions of dollars a year and has been called America’s most eligible bachelor. By most popular standards, he has it all. IT has really stuck a chord when I hear him on the interview say

“Why do I have three Super Bowl rings, and still think there’s something greater out there for me? I mean, maybe a lot of people would say, ‘Hey man, this is what is.’ I reached my goal, my dream, my life. Me, I think, ‘God, it’s got to be more than this.’ I mean this isn’t, this can’t be what it’s all cracked up to be.”

Tom is searching for the hole in his life that can only be filled by Jesus. His story of searching (not gridiron success) is my story — after many years, I found that peace and contentment that he is looking for — in Jesus. Check Him out – wrestle with who He is and why He came, and I think you’ll reach the same place. It’s not a 5 minute decision — it is a process — but you have to be willing to explore the claims of Jesus Christ.