Okay, so most everyone knows that I am a UNC Tarheel basketball fan. I have pulled for the heels for as long as I can remember. I've pulled for them when they had good players with what I perceived as good morals. And I have pulled for them when ol' Roy recruited what I perceived as a thug. On this year's team the good guy will be James Michael McAdoo. I have met him personally, he is a Christian. The thug will be P.J. Hairston. I have not met him, but according to this summer' antics and the folks he hangs out with, well . . . When basketball season gets really underway, I will still pull for the team dressed in Carolina Blue. And hey, I've still got some football games to pull for and can only hope that the Heels don't find a way to lose.
My first instinct is to wish that Hairston will get removed from the team. (No, really I do) But then again I really do wish that every political thug, every religious thug, every academic thug, and every thug in every facet of our lives would be removed. But that wasn't Jesus' first instinct. Jesus' first instinct was not to kick people off of the team. What He wanted was for thugs to experience a changed heart. "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a thug like me."
Or something like that.
So maybe the better prayer would be for changed hearts. Mine, yours and theirs.
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