Passports, Golf and Galileo

I will be traveling later on in the Spring to Indonesia to speak to some of our missionaries. It is a group of about 25 who call themselves HCC Cafe Indonesia. They connect with us every week. I think it is pretty cool. Anyway, I went and had a couple of photos taken for the Visa. You know, the kind you get for a passport. It seems like every time I have one of those photos taken I look like I am staring into a distorted mirror. But I wonder if I am the person who always thinks the photo doesn't do them justice but everyone else thinks it looks exactly like them. Why is it we think that pictures don't look like we do? They kind of have to, don't you think? I must have this idea in my head of what I really look like. It is probably made up in the same area of my brain that tells me that I am a mid 80's golfer. I've been reading a little about Galileo and the trouble he had convincing both the scientific and the religious community that the earth was not the center of the universe. God made the earth a tiny little ball that revolved with all the other planets around the massive sun. It was hard for scientists and priests alike to believe the earth was not the epicenter of the universe. It is hard for me to believe I look like my passport photo...ever. It is hard for me to believe I am not even a bogey golfer. Maybe when God made the earth revolve around the sun he was trying to prepare me for a little disappointment.