Reunion by Bruxy Cavey

Author:Bruxy Cavey [Cavey, Bruxy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MennoMedia
Published: 2017-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

I will never forget my first touchdown. I had joined our high school football team for a variety of reasons—I needed the exercise, I wanted to be popular, and I liked the jackets. I didn’t understand how football worked, but I didn’t really have to. Because I was a “husky” boy, as my coach called it, I played on the line—defensive and offensive, I was ready to block or tackle on a moment’s notice. That’s all I needed to know.

We were in the fourth quarter of one game, and the score was tied. Tension was high, since the opposing team had moved the ball within a few yards of our end zone and they had the ball. What happened next was like a slow-motion replay. Their quarterback fumbled the ball, and I was just steps away from the oblong pigskin, which was bouncing around in random directions like some sort of confused kangaroo. I moved toward it with the focus of a high school superhero about to save the day. Lo and behold, the ball bounced in my direction, and I scooped it up. I pivoted on one foot and sprang into a full-throttle run towards the end zone. I was running so fast I felt as if I traversed the entire length of the football field in a second. I could hear all my teammates screaming my name.

I crossed the line in a blaze of confidence and joy. I was standing in the end zone! While I stood there wondering what kind of dance I should spring into, the opposing team tackled me. Why on earth would they do that? As I slowly got up, jostled and incensed, it finally dawned on me.

I was standing in our own end zone. I had run the wrong way.

The horn sounded, and the game was over. I had scored my first and final touchdown (or “safety” for two points, to be specific). I was a hero, all right—for the opposing side.

I learned something very important that day. When one player scores a touchdown, the team scores a touchdown. That is corporate solidarity. When we are on the same team, one person’s achievement or failure is everyone’s achievement or failure. When a player scores a goal in hockey, the team gets the point. When a player makes a basket in basketball, the team gets two points. And when a husky boy from Scarborough, Ontario, gets confused in the fourth quarter and runs into his own end zone, the team loses the game.

When our corporate head, Adam, walked away from God’s love and God’s life, our whole species experienced the separation of sin.3

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