Fed Up & Over Fevola!

This white man believes in the principle that people should be afforded second-chances in life to amend their inadequacies and mistakes. This is a grace principle that should outweigh any legalistic "quick-to-judgement" attitude - well for Christian believers in any case. For that is at the heart of any legitimate Christian testimony - cue John Newton's Amazing Grace, the ageless hymn that reverberates to the core of our soul in and through our Christian faith and experience. This is my heart-felt belief and I try my best to live with integrity and forsaking hypocrisy by sticking with this grace and second-chance principle in alignment with the heart of my God.

But how life always presents challenges to one's best-held values. One such challenge to this white man is an individual named Brendan Fevola. AFL champion footballer, definitively yes...mature role-model and upright citizen of decent moral fibre? Definitively NO! Because it's not just this latest pathetic escapade that has come to light today and seen this buffoon of an individual suspended indefinately by his club for allegedly exposing himself at a family day function. And it's not just a matter of second-chances for Fevola who has had more than his fair share of redemptive hand-ups in life. Honestly, people like Brendan Fevola perplex this white man because they JUST DON'T GET IT and they JUST DON'T GROW UP!

Trust me, I'm not usually one quick to throw stones but how can one help but feel that if only a pebble lay nearby it would be best served travelling with velocity towards Fevola's head just in the hope of knocking some sense into him! He is truly an elite sportsman with the intelligence and decency of an amoeba. But does Fevola deserve another chance? If these latest allegations are proven true should the sporting curtain finally fall on this poor excuse of a man? My heart says he must be given every opportunity to redeem himself as this is the deserved right of any individual breathing the air of this earth. But my head just asks why we should even waste the effort to believe that this guy could ever truly redeem himself in life and finally "get it and grow up".

For the sake of his three young children, who I trust one day can look at their father as their hero and not their embarrassment, I hope Brendan Fevola, one day, can look at himself in the mirror and see worthiness and not the disgrace he currently is. For anyone can move from a place of disgrace into grace if they are willing to accept their frailties and turn things around. Is it in you Fevola? Prove to yourself and your kids that it's possible Brendan! It's never too late to turn things around...