Take a few minutes to read and reflect on this story.  “Welcome to the Sandbox”

6-year-old Mikey was having a bad day he knocked over paint running in school, he punched his little sister because she was bugging him while he was playing on the computer, he wanted no part of his lunch a meatloaf sandwich,  & on this particular afternoon, his friends weren’t around to play with. 

So, Mikey found himself exiled to the sandbox, pushing his toy dump truck through the sand.  After a while, he saw his dad come around the corner.  And he thought Mom must have told him about the day’s adventures.  Mikey didn’t look up; he didn’t say a word.   He just kept pushing his truck through the sand – and prepared himself for the worst.

His Dad bent down @ the edge of the sandbox, next to Mikey.  He took a pail, filled it with sand, and carefully turned it over at one end of the rut Mikey had cut through the sand.  He continued making one perfect mound of sand, after another. 

Mikey smiled for the first time all day.  For an hour or two, Mikey and his dad transformed the sandbox into an elaborate network of roads and bridges.  Then his Dad said, “It’s been a bad day all around”.   “Yup!” Mikey agreed as he made a new road with his truck.  Like Mikey’ s Dad, Jesus gets into the sandbox of life with us.

Today we are reminded that our baptism calls us, invites us to repent by: blessing each person we meet, blessing each moment we have, and blessing each action we take, and then giving them to the Lord.

May God Be Praised!