In Sunday’s Chicago Tribune, Paul Sullivan asked “9 Questions For the Cubs”. The last question was “Is this ‘The Year’?” Paul answered, “No, but it’s one year closer to ‘The Year.’” But is it?
After all, as we learned in physics (or was it math, I’m not sure), if something is infinitely far away and you take one step closer to it, it is still infinitely far away. Even if you think you have moved closer to it, you really haven’t – because it is still just as far away. That could be the Cubs trying for the pennant.
Similarly, one of the verses of the great Christian hymn, “Amazing Grace,” goes like this:
"When we've been here ten thousand years
bright shining as the sun.
We've no less days to sing God's praise
than when we've first begun."
In other words, even after we have been in heaven for ten thousand years, we still have as many days left as when we first arrived. That could be the Cubs trying for the pennant, too.
Which means both science and religion prove that, even if this year is not “The Year,” it is not necessarily one year closer to “The Year”, which may still be either infinitely far away or just as far away today as it will be 10,000 years from today.
And now to game two.
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