Happy Groundhog Day!

"Baby Groundhog" CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 by "tv". Source: Flickr

         In a time when every day seems to have a "National *** Day" designation, some of the old classics have deep roots that give us some meaning.

         Obviously, the celebration of the weather-forecasting rodent is one of these things.

         A number of years ago, a film "Groundhog Day" provided amusing vignettes of living the same day - 02 february - over and over and over again, where only the one character realises the repetition - that only ends when the "right" series of events occurs.

         It's an interesting premise: to have unlimited 'do-over' opportunities. Imagine if you could do that... What day would you choose? What activities do you think would cause a different reaction? Would it make a significant difference? How would we know when we finally 'got it right'?
         I wonder, then, under this premise, if we consider that each day gives us an opportunity to get it right. Each morning, we have another chance to engage the world in meaningful ways. We can choose to be kind as much as possible: to practice forgiveness, and humour, and express our faith.

         It's not always easy to seek the positive in life: but it is always possible. We are given the choice to respond to the world however we choose: each day we can choose to do the right thing.

         In a world where there is such desperation that even our hope goes to rodents, what a great landscape for sharing some love and light.