Passion

To pick a side when one is young is often the way that a team is supported for life.  There becomes such loyalty and passion that whether that team has been successful or not become irreverent.  It is the loyalty for it that makes its supporters passionate for its chance to be all at one with each other.  This passion continues season by season and all its supporters will have memorabilia to wear showing that they are all part of the supporters club and will turn out come rain come shine to be there for their chosen team.

 It is a good thing to learn as one grows up to have the passion to support and it will continue in later life to believe that this team chosen from all the others by this young soul and to be the one chosen for their very own.  There will be more successful clubs and there will be worthier clubs, but union will be from a greater level through life than even marriage or religion.  In a way it will become the religion of that young soul to put that team first and against all the odds expect it to win every week.

 Saturday becomes a special day without girls and without any other deadline, so that one feels instinctively that the band here is more important than the failure of the marriage and if there are children, they need to be born on any day but Saturday!  In time they will all be initiated to become the followers of the club and, as long as they are boys, they will join the supporters and wear the colored scarves in support.  Girls will not be expected to share in these events, as they won’t be believed in having the same interests or passion as their male counterparts.  How could they understand the steadfastness of being loyal to the one club and remain so through thick and thin?

 The loyalty overcomes all other emotions as Peter, who was said to be steadfast to Jesus, boasted of this and was told firmly that before the cock crowed, he would deny Jesus three times.  So, it was famously told when he was accused of being a member of the crucified Jesus’s followers.  He was afraid and chose to deny that he knew him, not once, not twice but three times and then the cock was able to crow.  If you break your loyalty to the team, you cannot be forgiven, but Jesus forgave Peter, who went out with the others and taught the good news when filled with the Holy Ghost.

 Sunday, 18^th April 2021