What redemption looks like
Wednesday April 9, 2008
Categories: Faith, Popular Culture
In the fall of 1986 I was a college freshman away on some spiritual retreat. I had chosen God over the New York Mets because there weren't any TVs around the weekend retreat and my beloved Mets were in...
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Perhaps the Cubs could re-sign Buckner to help end the curse?
Right, Canucklehead. It does seem like Billy Buck should be the right serum for the curse of the billy goat. The Soviet Union fell, Al Queda rose, the twin towers came down and we conquered Granada but brother Buckner never changes his moustache. Blerssings!
Praise God for redemption. He saved me.
How many games did he save?
This reminds me of something my wife said to me once. I was late to get home because of an unavoidable work issue. The fact that it was unavoidable was irrelevant - she was pissed because we were now late for our plans with her family.
After an unbearable 3 hour car ride during which my wife alternated between saying nothing and yelling, we arrived in reasonable fashion and made a go of things. Once we were settled around the dinner table and all was well, she leaned over to me and said, "Now that we made it here, I forgive you."
Well, that represented real forgiveness as much as this scene you linked evidences a meaningful scene of redemption. Buckner only needed to be redeemed because Red Sox fans are a bunch of jerks. The fans are the ones that need redeeming, not Buckner. The past years have been terrible for Buckner because the fans decided to ignore the balance of his accomplishments for one fluke play. The standing ovation was just like my wife leaning and whispering into my ear. "Now that we've won it, Billy, we forgive you."
Give me a break.
And thus it was that Chris didst implicitly refer to his wife as a jerk.
Of course not, but I did call her out on missing the point of forgiveness. She didn't disagree.
David, this was brilliant!! Yes, the Buckner appearance at Fenway was in all the news ... but your analyis (using it to help us imagine the scene of the Prodigal Son returning home) is truly inspired.
Bravo!
This alone redeems you for that dopey Mac/PC look-alike ad (would Jesus choose the slacker or the neat-freak?) which you posted elsewhere. All is forgiven :-)
Will it take you 22 years to forgive Barack Obama for (truthfully) saying Americans are bitter, David?
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