By Je suis Spike for RBN

Much of what has gone wrong with America can be analogized to America’s favorite pastime becoming Big Sport, sort of cartelized.  (At least as much has the NBA and NFL gone awry as America has.)

The souvenir balls aren’t real baseballs; souvenir bats are a joke.  Rare is the player who will sign his real autograph for a kid they chance to meet on the street.  Being paid to play the kid’s game no longer seems a ticket to earned soft privilege for the hard-working humble* but a reward for being born in a healthy body with a particularly situated set of nerves and talent much of which is also earned, let me be clear.  Nobody is born hitting a major-league curve; it is learned.

But baseball at every level was meant to be a party, not an opportunity to squeeze every last nickel from those who came to enjoy a game, now maybe only one a year which can be afforded; cheap bleacher seats being a distant memory.

In just the same way was America meant to be an opportunity to prosper while serving another less fortunate or in need of a better mousetrap in a nation where freedom allowed success for the hard worker and opportunity was not regulated out of reach by those already succeeding who lobbied crooked Congressmen, (sorry, Congress persons), filling their campaign coffers in legal bribery, to make it difficult to compete with those already successful.

But, make no mistake, Americans allowed this to happen.  We lost our way when we became fabulously prosperous- or at least apparently prosperous, though in debt up to our eyeballs.  We have met our enemy and he is us.

God might not have a problem with prosperity, but He knows that being hungry will drive faith and history seems replete with hunger appearing suddenly among those who’ve forgotten that.

Thank you for reading this,

Je suis Spike

•  Let us recognize the Tebow among the humble players.  A list of names too long to begin adding should follow; but you recognize them when they give glory to Whom should receive it, without Whom can nothing be done.