Drink deeply from America's Cup!

Celebration Reigns with America's Comeback 

Everyone wants to be called "the comeback kid."  It means more than just winning--it takes the super special all-out effort.  Winning becomes a true triumph.  No exaggeration!  The victory of Oracle in the America's cup will be very difficult indeed to match--let alone surpass.  Down 8 to 1--they came back race by race to a 9-8 comeback of super human proportions.  That can do, will do, did do spirit is what we drink from America's cup.

Nothing I say is meant to take away from that victory.  But it deserves that single line to emphasize this incredible victory which also shows us something about our faith. St Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians:

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory 

through our Lord Jesus Christ. 

 This is a different kind of victory--of forgiveness over sin, life over death--which is given to us as a free gift.  No comeback needed.  Nothing earned.  Just given!