Upon further review, I'm exhausted.
The Saints won their game against Carolina today, and I feel as if I played the full 60 minutes. The Saints are 8-0, the first time that sentence has been written in 43 years of Saints happening. This is becoming so difficult.
And that's the subject of this piece. Stress.
The Bible talks of the end times. In Daniel 12, we read, "At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beinning of nation's until then. But at that time your people -- everyone whose name is found written in the book -- will be delivered.
Imagine this, for just a second. The writer goes on to say: Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake (the dead will rise): Some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise will shine like the brightest of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
One day, maybe not in the distant future, my daddy will rise up. And it wouldn't surprise me too much if the first words he offers are (you ready for this?) Who Dat?
My father and I agreen on, well, nothing for the final 30 years of his life. We argued, fought (literally) and yelled.
But on one subject, we agreed without question or doubt.
Who dat, indeed?
My father and I latched on with heartstrings to the New Orleans Saints from the opening kickoff till he died. To think that the Saints are Super Bowl favorites right now as I write this brings joy and sadness to my heart. To think they could win it Super excites me. To think Dad missed it brings those tears back like fall rain.
The Saints are bringing an entire city together, right now, and it promises to get even greater as time and victories pass us by. To think they could be 10-0 when they return home in three weeks, and to think my wife Mary and I have tickets to the next home game on Nov. 30, brings some strangeness to my step.
We are living in some strange times, and though these might not be the end times, somehow if the Saints go 16-0 I don't think you could get anyone to say these aren't the end times.
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