THE CELEBRATION

[February 13, 2016 at 12:02pm]

Husband takes the wife to a night party. There’s a guy on the dance floor dancing happily—breakdancing, moonwalking, back flips, doing shoki. The wife turns to her husband and says, “See that guy? 25 years ago he proposed to me and I turned him down.”

Husband says, “Looks like he’s still celebrating!!”

I confess, I am no longer an avid fan of the PBA like I used to be, but some few days ago I happened to watch San Miguel-Alaska game when the former re-wrote history. The previous holder of great comeback in a best-of-seven series was Jaworski-led Ginebra when they turned the tide in their favor to take the crown down from 1-3.

That Ginebra ’91 was in an incredible reversal of fortune, so to speak. It was like the story of The Revenant if not of the unkillable Phoenix.  However, unlike that euphoric Distrito-heroic filled Game Seven, one thing was glaring during this recent PBA’s historic event. The victory of the Beermen seemed to be exclusive only for the team as they were the only ones who savored the moment.

Yesterday, especially during Toyota-Crispa-Ginebra heyday, all of the adoring fans were joining everybody. Whooping it up with the team’s CEO down to the ordinary, yelling, dancing and jumping on the court in victory.

It was one of the rare moments when the gods of financial Olympus of the country would feel like ‘human’ again and descend from their palaces. When they would join hand-in-hand with the lesser mortals, the masses, who would greet the players with handshakes, high-fives and embraces.

What a feeling indeed to be in a Utopia-like environment when all of you present in your surroundings are mutually giving each other perfectly honestly the same treatment. It’s truly amazing to be in a certain place where you consider each other as co-equal even in one single moment, you’d wish it’ never end, you’d hope for a repeat of the event.

Christians, share the good tidings, a much better celebration is about to happen when someday Christ would finally reign (Rev.11:15). There’ll be no great or small, there’ll be no ugly or beautiful, for everyone by faith He did redeem will be perfectly the same (Gal.3:28).

That’s the only moment when there’ll be genuine equality and fairness for any being. When there will be one joy, one love for each other, all together in one rejoicing.