With Easter upon us, consider this quote from "The Screwtape Letters", in which Screwtape (the devil) discussed the "demand for novelty" as a corrupting influence on mankind:
"This demand is valuable (to Screwtape, the devil) in various ways. In the first place, it diminishes pleasure while increasing desire. The pleasure of novelty is by its very nature more subject than any other to the law of diminishing returns. And continued novelty costs money, so that the desire for it spells avarice or unhappiness or both. And again, the more rapacious this desire, the sooner it must eat up all the innocent sources of pleasure... Thus by inflaming the horror of The Same Old Thing we have recently made...both 'low-brow' and 'high-brow' artists alike now daily drawn into fresh, and still fresh, excesses of lasciviousness, unreason, cruelty, and pride."
If you play tomorrow (Easter Sunday), or the next time you do play, enjoy the pleasure of the simple, routine, ordinary, familiar things in golf. If you miss them, you will be farther from God when you finish; if you find them, the universe will delight in your play.
Have a happy and blessed Easter!