Canadian Hymn writer Walter Farquharson penned the words:"Though ancient walls may still stand proud and racial strife be fact,
though boundaries may be lines of hate, proclaim God's saving act ...
Walls that divide are broken down; Christ is our unity!
Chains that enslave are thrown aside; Christ is our liberty !"
I wonder how many Churches acknowledged today is the 60th Anniversary that one of the walls that divided humanity was finally breached ??
It may not be "Sacred" enough for most people, but there is NO disputing the significance of that moment when history was made ...
It was SIXTY years ago today, that Jackie Robinson, wearing the number 42 on his jersey, stepped out on to Ebbets Field and broke professional baseball's so-called "colour" barrier ... Most people forget that Robinson had begun playing for the Montreal Royals a year earlier in New Jersey when he made his debut for the farm team of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It is, however, the 1947 debut that everyone remembers Jackie Robinson for ...
60 Years later there is still much work to be done ... there are still many walls to fall and chains to be laid aside ... but today we pause to remember how one man showed us all, that too often those who oppose things are simply small minded and utterly riduculous ...
In Baseball today - do we even care about the racial background of the players??
I know I don't ...
There's a lesson here for all of us, particularly those of us in the Church. Too often we fight viciously to hold fast to the walls and boundaries that should have been laid aside long ago ... We pervet the Gospel, but trying to stife the Spirit ...
This Easter Season, let's have the audacity and the courage to remember what people like Jackie Robinson represent, and let us in faith, follow their lead ...
Walls that divide, must be broken down ...
Way to Go Mr. Robinson ... and Thanks.
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