"Everybody in our part of town wanted to see him. Old people and small children, invalids and town drunks all walked through the streets. Some people were on crutches, and some blind people clutched the arms of friends, walking slowly on parade to that ball park to sit in the segregated section. We watched him play that day and finally believed what we had read in the papers, that one of us was out there on that ball field. When the game was over, we kids followed Jackie as he walked with his teammates to the train station, and when the train pulled out, we ran down the tracks listening for the sounds as far as we could....We wanted to be part of him as long as we could."

Do you see? Jackie Robinson at that moment in history was more than one man. He represented the aspirations of all of his people. In a sense he was all of them. So it was that Jesus of Nazareth was very much a man. And yet he was us all. That is how he could become our Savior. And that is why today we are all with Him as believers. Wherever we are, He is there.

Ron Newhouse

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