If you are of a certain age you might remember the opening sequence of ABC’s Wide World of Sports. Specifically the image of Slovenian ski jumper Vinko Bogataj crashing in spectacular fashion to a voiceover saying “The agony of defeat”.

Watching that video most people tend to focus on the horrific limb-shattering, life-altering, skull-crushing, concussion-inducing, ankle-snapping, vertebrae-popping, spleen-rupturing, ACL-tearing, femur-cracking, thorax-destroying, genital-mashing crash that skier had to endure throughout that 10-second video….Only 10 seconds, repeated over and over.

Instead, you are encouraged to look at that singular moment as a glorious example of how one man celebrated his potential and embraced his destiny for what must have seemed like a near-eternity of contiguous microseconds as he remained airborne through (perhaps) several of those video’s frames. With the aid of a slow-motion camera conversion, this video shows the skier’s body literally appearing to figuratively soar several inches above the rock-hard snowpack as if time and space were frozen, revealing to us God sharing a wink of the infinite with this man. For those more optimistic, is there anything better than the feeling of divine weightlessness – even for a moment?