one of the problems with getting older is that some
of the people you admire are getting older too and some of them have even died.
one of those is charles schulz the
creator of the peanuts comic strip.
one comic strip he wrote shows linus sharing with
his older sister lucy a comic strip he had written. he hands her the piece of
paper and asks, “lucy, would you read this and tell me if you think it's
funny?”
lucy reads it, and a bit of a grin comes across her
face. she looks at linus and says, “well, who wrote this?”
linus puffs out his chest and says with a big
smile, “lucy, i wrote that.” lucy then wads the paper up, tosses it to the
side, and says, “well, then, i don’t think it’s very funny.”
linus picks up his crumpled comic strip, throws his
security blanket over his shoulder, and says, “big sisters are the crabgrass in
the lawn of life.”
we smile at that, and we relate to that, because we
all have a few clumps of crabgrass in the lawn of our lives. our family members
and friends have said or done hurtful things to us, too. we’ve felt the
discouragement of failure, the sting of criticism, and the despair of
hopelessness. sometimes our crabgrass even comes with “stickers”—thorns that
pierce us to the heart day after day.
and what we human beings tend to do is get so upset
over the crabgrass that we forget to give thanks for the lawn. we get so
focused on our problems and our pains that we lose our sense of gratitude for
the many blessings we still enjoy.
psalm 136.1 (msg), thank GOD! HE deserves your
thanks. HIS love never quits.
happy thanksgiving!!!
just a thought from the front porch…
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