ANOTHER DAY

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

We can learn a lot from newspaper comics. “Hi and Lois” depicts the ups and downs of an average middle-class family. One of the strips showed the family on a typical Monday morning.

In the first frame, Hi, the father and an accountant by trade, is on his way to work. He says to himself: “Another dumb day, going to that same dumb office, to work on those same dumb numbers that I must have worked on a thousand times before!” In the second frame, his wife is cleaning a floor and saying to herself: “Another dumb day, cleaning this same dumb house”(You can finish this for her). In the next frame, you see the older children on the school bus. One is saying to the other: “Another dumb day”(And on and on it goes).

In the last frame, you see the youngest child of about two, standing in her crib, wide awake, fresh for a new day, her arms up in the air, facing the sun, shouting in joy: “ANOTHER DAY!” In her young life, this is not just another dumb day. This is virgin time. New things will happen to her this day, and she is ready to be astonished, ready for God to appear.