Doc's Waiting Room cum Library.

Flu season has started in Ontario, so I got a flu shot this afternoon. And while waiting to be seen by my Doc, I did the usual thing I do in any doctor's waiting room - read.

My family physician is a car enthusiast so naturally his subscription includes car and truck magazines, even subscription from European publishers and of course, Sports Illustrated is a staple in the magazine rack.

After browsing some car and sports magazines, I found one of my favorites, McLean's, a true Canadian publication. I was also looking for a Time or Newsweek, but couldn't find any this time.

The Sports Illustrated I read featured an article about the Florida Gators' quarterback, Tim Tebow, who won the Heisman Trophy in 2007.

In a College Football website, it says, in 2007: "Florida's folk-hero quarterback with the rugged running style and magnetic personality won the Heisman on Saturday night to become the first sophomore or freshman to take college football's most prestigious award."

And this year, Tim Tebow is again on the running for the Heisman.

But what caught my attention in the Tebow article was the young man's other pre-occupation in life: he's a preacher. And a son of a preacher/missionary. His dad and mom used to be missionaries in the Southern Philippines, and before Tim was conceived, his father prayed for a son and promised the Lord that if he gets a son, he'd make him a preacher.

Bob and Pam Tebow, worked for five years as Baptist Church missionaries in South Cotabato, Mindanao some 24 years ago, where Tim was born. The father now runs several orphanages in Southeast Asia including one in the Philippines.

Yes, father Bob got a son, Tim, and he became a quarterback but also a preacher. Off football tracks, Tim goes to prisons where he's allowed to go and preaches his faith. He prefers to talk to the most hardened or those without hope anymore.

According to http://www.gatorzone.com/ regarding Tebow's nomination for this year's William Campbell Trophy, "Off the field, Tebow has spent over 700 hours of community service and appearances this year, including making phone calls to sick children and going on hospital visits to pediatric wings, among other service activities. Honored with UF’s Office of Student Life’s Goodwill Gator Community Service Award in 2008, Tebow cites his priorities in this order: faith, family, academics and then football."

Almost every year, Tim and his family spend vacation time preaching and reaching out to the poor in the Philippines' South. And just recently in one of these spring breaks, Tim assisted in the circumcision of poor Pinoy kids in GenSan.

Now leafing through an old issue of McClean's my eyes riveted to two articles: one, the latest craze among tweenies (pre-teen girls), Bras. What?

And the second one, how one marriage counsellor parlayed her shocking divorce into a career: marriage counselling.

In the divorce article, it said that " those husbands who suddenly break to their wives the news that they want a divorce, almost the majority do so in the months between November through January." It further says, it is so, because the husbands could no longer dare show a happy face during the Holidays.

So, next time you book an appointment to see a doctor, make sure you have less or more time to be in the waiting room. It's either you've got to finish reading what you started or don't read at all.