The Groundhog Day

This morning I was reminded that yesterday was the official Groundhog Day as I sat on my couch and watched Bill Murray (Phil) in the movie of the same name. It really is a great movie with an excellent theme within. As Phil is captured within the day, reliving it over and over, seemingly without end and ultimately what seems to be nearly of year of reliving the exact same day, he is finally released from his cyclical prison cell when he has transformed into something he was far from in the beginning of the film...a self centered ego-centric chauvinistic pig with a propensity of doing anything for his own gain. By the final moments of the movie he has been transformed, having tried all else within the vacuum of his time continuum including manipulating women for the sole purpose of "landing them in bed", abusing people that annoy him, and with constant failure he commits suicide day after day to end his misery. All of his attempts of removal from the land of the eternal 24 hours were completely in vain and he remained confined.

In reality we will never experience a day like Phil did in that movie. We won't get a "do-over" once we make a fatal relationship mistake. We won't get a "do-over" when we pass by the man on the corner begging for a meal. We won't get a "do-over" when we have lived our entire lives for selfish gain and self supremacy.

A life fulfilled, as Phil learned is a life lived for others. A life full of love and delight is accomplished when we turn from self, and turn towards God. When we see the world through "crimson-colored" glasses we will see a world that needs us to help feed the man on the corner begging for a meal. We will see a relationship needing invigoration instead of invalidation, and ultimately we will see our lives with the true worth that God deemed having absolute value, rather than our own valuation of life based on material ownership and ostentatious love.

I hope that when you have your Groundhog Day in your life, that the Creator of Punxsutawney Phil, the Ultimate Seer of Seers, the Perfect Prognosticator of all Prognosticators; you will see that Winter can soon end for you...that soon, Spring given through Him will bring new life and new direction to you.