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Thursday, September 25, 2003 Anthony Rocca and RegretPassionate stuff! Following on from below, where I was touched by the analogy between that line in Wesley's hymn where Christ "bled for Adam’s helpless race", and Rocca's helpless plight; in today's Age story of Rocca's tribunal hearing, the statements of two former players (Schwab & Crowe) tell the anguish:Schwab told the board he did not believe Rocca's action malicious. "At worst, it was an error of judgement," Schwab said. "To play in the ultimate game is indescribable. To miss it is an enormous penalty." Crowe said that missing a grand final "continually grinds away at your soul. I would not wish or want any player of any club to go through the continuing misery and grief that's involved. "It kills you to miss it. I don't know Anthony personally, but it will kill him, too." That's a description of the insatiable regret that Rocca will carry for the rest of his life - for missing the opportunity to play in a footy game (admittedly the biggest game of his life). What about the anguish and regret of those who miss God's grace - who face the Judge and hear the pronouncement "guilty" but without being able to plead for God's grace based on sheltering under the blood of the Lamb of God?? Words of Jesus in Matthew 8:11-12 "I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." # posted by geoff @ 10:38 am 0 comments
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