It's Been Burnin' Since the World's Been Turnin'

Well, today is the day. The Insanity begins tonight at 10 p.m. We have 40 guys split into two teams: Team Insanity and Team Humanity. Then, we split each team into rotation groups of 10 players. For instance on Team Insanity there is a Group A and Group B with 10 players each. When we begin play, Group A from Team Insanity will play Group A from Team Humanity for four hours and then we will switch and Group B from Team Insanity will play Group B from Team Humanity for 4 hours. If that was incredibly convoluted, I am sorry.

One of my favorite silly things about the game is that we have to keep stats for propriety and the record. I have no idea what the final score is going to be, but I will give out a small prize for the person who has the closest guess. If you are able to come out this weekend to watch it will be a lot of fun. In addition to the game, there will be carnival with face-painting, a dunking booth (with selected ACU faculty and staff), bands playing at night, and a gigantic moon-jump. This has been such a huge undertaking, and I think it is going to be amazing.

In this entire event, there has been a kind of inner circle of guys who had the dream from the beginning and have just run with it. The defining moment came one night when it was just Patrick, Dave, Cole, and I in Walling talking about the game and what made us the most excited/afraid about the game. Something that Dave said has stuck with me. He said that we have to look at each other and decide that we would forgive each other no matter what happened. Even if the event is a complete failure, even if no one shows up, and even if we do not raise any money. That was the proverbial "Crossing of the Rubicon" moment and it was incredibly liberating. No longer did we work with the fear of failure as our motivation, but instead we looked at all of the amazing things that God was doing through something as simple as a softball game.

I don't think that I am ever going to forget what is going to happen this weekend. How often do you have the opportunity to break a world record with 39 of your closest friends?